November 2026
Work the festival
Two hundred and ten people make this happen and two-thirds of them come back the next year. Every rate on this page is what you will actually be paid.
Two hundred and ten of us
Everyone on site
is paid the same rate
Whether you are running a follow spot or a bin round, the day rate is the same and it is published below. There is no student rate, no trial shift and no exposure. Everybody eats from the same kitchen and everybody gets a bed on the shuttle home.
Two-thirds of the crew come back the following year, which is the only recruitment measure we pay attention to. Fourteen people who started as stewards now hold department roles, and three of them run one.
Paid within 10 days
Meals and transport
Training given
Applications close 3 October
Six paid roles
for November
Front-of-house engineer
Main Stage. Digital desk, forty-eight channels, a delay tower stack and a monitor engineer who knows what they are doing.
GHS 900 / day
Lighting technician
Rig, focus, run. Sixty moving heads across two stages. Working at height certification required and checked.
GHS 620 / day
Stage manager
Palmwine stage. Twelve changeovers a day on a fifteen-minute turnaround, and the authority to hold a set that is not ready.
GHS 750 / day
Steward
Gates, stage edge, or roaming. Two days of training in the week before, paid at the same rate as the festival itself.
GHS 260 / day
Box office assistant
Wristband exchange, accreditation and the accessible entry desk. Twi and English both needed; Ga and Ewe welcome.
GHS 300 / day
Artist liaison
Four acts each, from airport to stage to hotel. The job is remembering what somebody said they needed nine hours ago.
GHS 450 / day
Highlife
Afrobeats
Gospel
Drill
Palmwine
Hiplife
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Highlife
Afrobeats
Gospel
Drill
Palmwine
Hiplife
Fontomfrom
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Or come as
a volunteer
A hundred and twenty places, three six-hour shifts across the weekend, and the pass is yours whether you are on shift or not. Training is two paid days in the week before — nobody is put on a gate having been told what to do in a car park.
3 × 6h
Shifts across the weekend
Full pass
Yours whether on shift or not
Every meal
From the crew kitchen
2 days
Paid training beforehand
Early-bird passes
close on 30 September
Weekend passes go up by eighty cedis at the end of September and the Late Room sells out every year before the lineup is even announced.
Confirm your place