Following a 14-year absence, Jamaica's Reggae Sunsplash Festival will return in 2020
That year, Green and Johnson heard about the Jamaica Tourist Board’s plans for a Singles Week event, which targeted American college students, hoping they would want to visit Jamaica and see the island’s attractions. Green and Johnson thought a reggae festival would provide the ideal nighttime entertainment; the duo recruited Burke and Wakeling, who had greater familiarity with the local reggae scene, to help make it happen.
Green says at least 70% of the audience at the inaugural Sunsplash didn’t pay for their tickets; some scaled walls and others broke down fences to gain free entry, which resulted in a devastating financial loss. Uncertain if they could afford to stage the 1979 festival, Synergy’s fortunes quickly turned around when Marley agreed to join that year’s lineup, which would turn out to be his final performance in Jamaica.
In December 1992, the Synergy directors were informed by the Jamaican government that the Bob Marley Center, where Sunsplash had been held since 1987, was unavailable: the land had been sold and work would soon begin on a housing development at the site. Synergy was offered another outdoor space in Montego Bay called Catherine Hall, which Green described as “a swamp.
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