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Dreamville tickets are sold out

Dreamville, a music festival created by Fayetteville native and rapper J. Cole, will be held Saturday, April 1 and Sunday, April 2.
Posted 2023-03-09T21:27:37+00:00 - Updated 2023-03-09T21:24:00+00:00
Drake, Usher, J. Cole headline 2023 Dreamville Festival lineup

Tickets for this year's Dreamville music festival are sold out.

The two-day festival will be held Saturday, April 1 and Sunday, April 2, at Dix Park. It is created by Fayetteville native and rapper J. Cole, who will headline the event along with performers including Usher, Ari Lennox and Drake.

The lineup was announced last week.

Dreamville festival lineup
Dreamville festival lineup

Usher, Lil Durk, Ari Lennox, City Girls, Sean Paul, Earthgang, Jessie Reyez, Key Glock, Sir, Lute, Omen, Marqus Clae and Victony are set to perform on April 1.

J. Cole and Drake will headline the second day of the festival, which will also include performances by Burna Boy, Summer Walker, J.I.D., Glorilla, Bas, Wake Flocka Flame, Mario, Ayra Starr, Baby Tate, Cozz, Jordan Ward and Reuben Vincent.

Tickets for this year's event are on sale now.

An estimated 80,000 people attended the festival in 2022 after a years-long break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first festival in 2019 attracted a crowd of 40,000 for just one day.

Last year's event featured multiple stages and popular artists like T-Pain and Ari Lennox along with new rappers. There was also a family-style cookout, artists, vendors, muralists and performers.

"Last year's festival had ticket holders from all 50 states and about a dozen foreign countries," Loren Gold, the executive vice president of Visit Raleigh, said Tuesday.

Gold said the city saw about $6.7 million in direct economic impact from the 2022 festival. Gold said that number could go over $7 million with the capacity increased to allow 50,000 people each day at the event.

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