Chris Willman Music WriterH.E.R.’s Lights On Festival is going bicoastal. A New York edition of her previously Bay-area-only festival has just been added, set to take place Oct.
21-22 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn with Maxwell as a co-headliner and a dozen support acts announced.The New York expansion follows a near-instantaneous sellout for the second annual west coast Lights On in Concord, California Sept.
18-19.Artists included on the H.E.R.-curated bill in Brooklyn besides Maxwell include Bryson Tiller, 6lack, Ari Lennox, SWV, Queen Naija, Chloe Bailey, Skip Marley, Lucky Daye, Blxst, Victoria Monét, Tone Stith and Joyce Wrice, with more additions said to be coming.Two-day passes for the festival go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
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