Our free festival weekend returns to Lloyd Park following 2015’s celebrations that saw over 32,000 visitors and 650 performers take part.
This year’s programme is even more varied providing a fantastic mix of international and local talent that showcases the communities and creativity of Waltham Forest. Acts confirmed for the Barbican Music Stage include Mo’Kalamity, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Emicida, Asian Dub Foundation, Ana Tijoux, Alif and Batida. There’s also the Real Food Festival, theatre, film, comedy, circus, spoken word, family fun and much more.
Visit the festival website to sign up for the free festival map and guide.
Programming, live performances and community stalls are fully booked for Walthamstow Garden Party 2016.
For specific festival queries please be sure to check our info pages and FAQs - http://walthamstowgardenparty.com/info
Every month, we bring you a collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
Artists: A. Billi Free , Almamegretta , Batida , Bomba Estereo , Branko , Danakil , Deer Scout , Elida Almeida , Ivy Sole , Krak In Dub , La Perla , Maga Bo , Philippe Cohen Solal , Sampa The Great , Soom T , The Lasso , Tremor , Trupa Turpa
Download this exclusive FREE Rhythm Passport album TODAY! Preview of the album: This Album is no longer available however if you want to receive exclusive access to a free album like this each month just sign up to our monthly newsletter by filling in the form below: Track List:…
Artists: Akram Abdulfattah , Batida , Bonbon Vodou , Emmanuel Jal , Hazem B , Indus , La Carisalve , Lua Preta , Rabii Harnoune , Soom T , V.B.Kuhl
Every month, we bring you a collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
Artists: Ana Tijoux , Ben Lamar Gay , Ego Ella May , Emmanuel Jal , Hiatus Kaiyote , Ibeyi , Mamak Khadem , Montparnasse Musique , Muthoni Drummer Queens , Nightmares On Wax , Puerto Candelaria , Sho Madjozi , Small Island Big Song , The Buttshackers , Walaa Sbait
This show is dedicated to the Angolan Independence Day, commemorated on the 11th of November of 1975, dedicated as well to its people and marvellous country. The show kicks off with Bonga and its wonderful voice, music’s extracted from his debut albums, Angola 72 and Angola 74, then we travel…
Artists: Águias Reais , Artur Nunes , Batida , Bonga , Carlos Burity , Elias Diakimuezo , Gabriel Tchiema , Grandmaster Flash , Joao Morgado , Lancerdo , Lourdes Van Dúnem , Luís Quintero , Luís Visconde , Nany , Os Kiezos , Paulo Flores , Rocky Marsiano , Ruy Mingas , Urbano de Castro , Waldemar Bastos , Wiza
This show is a trip through world music and global beats searching for the Oneness in humanity, regardless of all geographical, political, economic and all kinds of divisions, and identifications we might all have, in these times of uncertainties we search for Unity. The unity that music brings to us……
Artists: Águias Reais , Alfredo Linares , Artur Nunes , Ases do Prenda , Batida , Bau , Bulimundo , Elias Diakimuezo , Fe Fe Chico , IKOQWE , Lancerdo , Legalize , Lourdes Van Dúnem , Loyale , Luís Quintero , Luís Visconde , Mamukueno , Nany , Os Kiezos , Os Tubarões , Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical , Sofia Rosa , Urbano de Castro , Zé do Pau
Ten years of making radio and 500 podcasts, that’s what Mukambo is celebrating this week. So we have a special program talking you through the very vest albums of those ten years. Get ready for a trans-Atlantic trip going from Africa over Latin America to Europe, and a pan-African ride…
Artists: Batida , Dele Sosimi , Dizzy Mandjeku , Doña Onete , Ebo Taylor , Gaspar Z'África , Guts , Gyedu-Blay Ambolley , Jungle Fire , Konono N1 , London Afrobeat Collective , Michi Sarmiento , Mulatu Astatke , Newen Afrobeat , Oghene Kologbo , Raúl Monsalve , Raul Monsalve Y Los Forajidos , Rocky Marsiano , Seun Kuti , Son Palenque , The Bongo Hop
This week, Radio Mukambo takes you from Germany to Africa with Zik Zak, cd of the week by the German production duo Ancient Astronauts featuring upcoming vocalists and rappers from across Africa and the diaspora. We listen to plenty of new releases & remixes from Brazil, London, Afro-Colombia, Angola, Brussels &…
Artists: Ancient Astronauts , Azmari , Batida , ChampetaMan , Chouk Bwa and The Ångströmers , Dele Sosimi , DJ KL Jay , Eparapo , Faraon Bantu , Kind and Kinky Zoo , Lakou Mizik , Plu con Pla , Sumohair , The Fontanas , The New Mastersounds , The Soul Rebels
Every month, we bring you a collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
Artists: Cookin On 3 Burners , AYOM , Burna Boy , Cacao Mental , Calexico , CIMAFUNK , Criolo , ELWD , Emicida , Ill Considered , La Chica , Liraz , Mohammed Yahya , Nobuko Miyamoto , Nuri , Samm Henshaw
Batida is back with a collection of remastered tracks, unreleased mixes and lost versions on Um, a title with a double meaning as it’s both number 1 in Portuguese as “hmm”, an Angolan sound to start many words in Umbundo language, the main language spoken in Huambo, the city where…
Artists: Alibombo , Ancient Astronauts , Batida , Battle of Santiago , Cabruêra , ChampetaMan , Faraon Bantu , Radar Station , Sahad and The Nataal Patchwork , Spyda MC
Every month, we bring you a collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
Artists: Ana Tijoux , Asian Dub Foundation , Aziza Brahim , Bigyuki , Deradoorian , Ghetto Kumbe , HHY , Lous and the Yakuza , Luedji Luna , Mas Musiq , Nubiyan Twist , Populous , Sumac Dub , The Kampala Unit , U-Zhaan , Urban Village![Album Review: Asian Dub Foundation – Access Denied [X-Ray Production; September 2020]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/adb-access-denied-cover-620x620.jpg)
Access Denied, the ninth album from Asian Dub Foundation will be released on 19th September 2020. ‘Can’t Pay Won’t Pay’, the first single from the album has a refrain that references the Poll Tax riots which was part of the late 80s/early 90s milieu of political activity and government-funded youth…
Artists: Asian Dub Foundation
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…
Artists: Actress , Amon Tobin , Bukky Leo , Dele Sosimi , Diezmo , Domenico Lancellotti , Dwight Trible , Fanfare Ciocarlia , Femi Elias , Gaijin Blues , Gary Bartz , Ivocore , Lokkhi Terra , Luke Vibert , Maisha , Marcos Aganju , Nina Miranda , Nubiyan Twist , Ólafur Arnalds , Pedrolito , Snarky Puppy , Taraf De Impex , The Scorpios , Tinariwen , Toby Kaar
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…
Artists: Afrikan Boy , Afriquoi , Amadou & Mariam , Amira Kheir , Amy True , Blue Lab Beats , Bumi Thomas , Carthnage , Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra , Dj Jigüe , Elpeche , Emicida , Ezra Collective , Fatima , Femi And The Inrhythms , Gianni Denitto , Imperio Bamba , Kamaal Williams , Koroleko Moussa Dembele , La-33 , Lua Preta , Marcelo D2 , Mayra Andrade , Merca Bae , Nané , Naphta , Neneh Cherry , Onra , Renegade Brass Band , Sons Of Kemet , Stella Chiweshe , Tássia Reis , The Blind Boy of Alabam , The Bongo Hop , Xylouris White , Zara Mcfarlane
Here’s a brand new episode of our Rhythm Passport On Air podcast in collaboration with SOAS Radio. This month, we reached Pedro Coquenão, also known as Batida, by phone in Lisbon, and we had an intense and interesting chat about several topics. From his recent participation in Africa Express: The…
Artists: Batida
If you have attended any of the previous Africa Express shows, you know they never disappoint your thirst for music. For hours and hours, they stun you with a deluge of quality acts and unexpected collaborations, not only featuring the exceptional artistry of the musicians involved but also their welcoming…
Artists: Batida , Blur , Damon Albarn , Django Django , Dobet Gnahore , Ellie Rowsell , Georgia , Joan As Policewoman , Krar Collective , London Community Gospel Choir , Mounir Troudi , ONIPA , Rokia Traoré , The Turbans , Tony Allen
Gypsy brass legends Fanfare Ciocărlia have been making music for over two decades, and to celebrate they have just released 20, a beautifully packaged retrospective LP bringing together some of their best work to capture the boundless energy that has gained them a well-earned following on the global world music…
Artists: Fanfare Ciocarlia![Album Review: Emicida – About Kids, Hips, Nightmares, and Homework [Sterns Music, 24th June 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/emicida-sobre-criancas-quadris-pesadelos-e-licoes-de-casa-capa-800x800-620x620.jpg)
Inspired by a trip to Africa, Emicida (a play on MC and homicide), has released the album About Kids, Hips, Nightmares, and Homework. On it, he collaborates with African musicians such as Kaku Alves, for many years Césaria Évora’s guitarist, and Angolan semba player Joao Morgado. Brazilian music celebrities Caetano…
Artists: Emicida
[chimpy_form forms=”5″] They invited their fans singing “come see us play”. So we did it and enjoyed every single minute of it. Sidestepper brought their Afro-Colombian groove to WOMAD Festival and it was simply “chevere!” A few minutes later, we witnessed the brilliant 30-year reunion of Songhai – kora king Toumani Diabate with…
Artists: Ana Tijoux , Anoushka Shankar , George Clinton , Parliament Funkadelic , Sidestepper , Toumani Diabaté
This ingenious collaboration between London’s Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) and Pakistan’s Laal was possibly one of the biggest concerts of Southbank Centre’s Alchemy Festival this year, and certainly exceeded expectations. The festival, now in its seventh year, celebrates the historical and cultural ties between South Asia and Britain, and this…
Artists: Asian Dub Foundation , Laal
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