Promiseland Festival releases the 2023 line-up led by Lauryn Hill, Davido and Tems
FireboyDML, L.A.B, Ayra Starr, Koffee and ONEFOUR will all play at the Queensland event later this year
Promiseland Festival has today (February 27) released the line-up for its 2023 edition, with headliners including Lauryn Hill, Davido and Tems.
The Afrobeats, reggae and R&B event will take place over two days at the Gold Coast’s Doug Jennings Park from September 30 to October 1. Alongside Davido, Tems and Hill — the latter of whom will mark her first visit to Australia in over four years — Promiseland will also welcome line-up acts Fireboy DML, L.A.B, Ayra Starr, Koffee and ONEFOUR.
The phase one line-up announcement features more than 50 acts. Stan Walker, House of Shem, Uncle Waffles, Gold Fang, Musa Keys and Katchafire also appear on the bill. See the entire line-up for Promiseland Festival 2023 below. Tickets to the event will go on sale on Wednesday, March 12 through Promiseland’s website here.
“We have been working on the notion of a specialised event to cater to Afrobeats, Amapiano, Reggae and R&B for several years”, Promiseland spokeswoman Emal Naim said in a statement. “[We] understood that an event such as Promiseland was greatly needed in Australia… We are now aiming to establish Promiseland as a regular event on the Australian music calendar.”
Some 21,000 people attended Promiseland’s debut Australian edition last year, with performances by UB40, Scribe, PAUA and Wyclef Jean, among others. Hill’s 2023 visit will honour the 25th anniversary of her first solo album ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’, which was released in 1998.
In 2021, the album sold over 10 million copies in the US, making Hill the first female rapper to accomplish the milestone. Meanwhile, Davido’s most recent album, ‘A Better Time’, was released in 2020 and garnered a four-star rating by NME. Last year, Tems contributed a cover of Bob Marley & The Wailers’ song ‘No Woman No Cry’ to the soundtrack of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
