For more than ten years the Amsterdam Roots Festival has ranked amongst the leading international music festivals, presenting frontier-crossing developments in world music to a large, varied audience. The festival is characterised different ethnic backgrounds and music styles and contacts between different population groups.

On Sunday 20 June 2010 the Amsterdam Roots Festival will feature 'Roots Open Air' in Oosterpark a large-scale, free, open-air festival staged in one of Amsterdam's parks. Performances, presentations and workshops of Dutch and foreign music groups will then take place on several platforms and in tents.

This musical spectacle will also feature more than a hundred stands representing organisations and institutes active in the fields of world music and non-Western culture, including exciting culinary products.

In 2008 more than 50,000 people of all cultural backgrounds visited Roots Open Air, together creating a relaxed, festive ambiance.