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27/06/2020 5:00 pm - 10:30 pm Hi-Life Conversations (Live on Facebook)
Today, from 5PM, join us on Facebook for an afternoon and evening of Hi-Life sounds and words! Hi-life music originated in present-day Ghana early in the 20th century. It harnesses the melodic and rhythmic structures of traditional Akan music, but is played mainly with Western instruments. Hi-life is distinguished by...
23/05/2020 4:00 pm - 10:00 pm Global Afrobeat e-Fest
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, afrobeat’s rise in global popularity in the past decade has unavoidable. But the genre, with a rich history based on instrumental figures such as Fela Kuti, Tony Allen and Oghene Kologbo dating back to the late 60s, is more than a commercial fad....
At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some...
21/02/2020 - 22/02/2020 9:00 pm - 3:00 am Fruit Palace: Dele Sosimi x Medlar (live) / Nebula Sun & More Hootananny Brixton, London
If you’re looking for an unpredictable night-out in music, look no further. When “Afrobeat Ambassador” Dele Sosimi meets electronic DJ and house producer Medlar, you can be sure that you’ll be dancing and listening to quality music. But you never know where the night will lead you… On Friday the 21st...
There’s no way you can start 2020 in a jazzier way than attending this gig. Cubafrobeat is indeed one of the niftiest and most upbeat projects of the decade just ended, and it will go on scene, on the shining Ronnie Scott’s stage on the 12th of January. In June...
31/12/2019 - 01/01/2020 9:00 pm - 7:00 am Oval Space x The Pickle Factory NYE with Gilles Peterson, Dan Shake, Henry Wu, Nu Guinea & More Oval Space, London