Forty acts · four stages
Who is playing
Half of this bill has never played a festival before. That is not an accident and it is not a compromise — it is the whole reason the bill is worth reading.
One a night
The three
closing sets
Highlife
Adjoa Kaya
Thirty years of guitar-band highlife and the only person alive who still plays the Ramblers arrangements the way they were written. Closing the first night with a fourteen-piece band.
Afro-soul
Serwaa Blue
Two albums, no label, and a Saturday-night crowd that already knows every word. Her band has not played Accra since the Ho show sold out in forty minutes last April.
Afrobeats
Yaw Prempeh
Closing the tenth edition, back where he played his first festival slot in 2018 to about ninety people and a rainstorm. Bringing the horn section this time.
Forty acts · four stages
Who is playing
Highlife
Adjoa Kaya
Fri · Main Stage · 21:40
Palmwine
Kobby Sarpong
Fri · Palmwine · 19:00
Afro-soul
Serwaa Blue
Sat · Main Stage · 22:15
Traditional
Nii Odartey
Sat · Drum Circle · 15:30
Gospel
Ama Dzifa
Sun · Main Stage · 18:00
Drill
Fiifi Kwao
Sat · Late Room · 01:00
Hiplife
Akos Mensimah
Sun · Main Stage · 20:30
Afrobeats
Yaw Prempeh
Sun · Main Stage · 22:00
Where all of it came from
The ensembles
The Fontomfrom Collective
Eleven drummers from Manhyia, Ga Mashie and Ho playing the royal and funeral rhythms in the round, three times a day, free inside the gate. Bring your hands.
All three days · Drum Circle · 12:00, 15:00, 17:30
Osu Brass Union
A fourteen-piece adaha brass band who march the ground rather than take a stage. If you hear them, follow them — they end up somewhere different every night.
Fri & Sat · roaming · from 18:00
Highlife
Afrobeats
Gospel
Drill
Palmwine
Hiplife
Fontomfrom
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Highlife
Afrobeats
Gospel
Drill
Palmwine
Hiplife
Fontomfrom
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6
Six names still
to be announced
Four for the Late Room, which never gets a printed lineup, and two for the Saturday main stage. They go out to weekend pass-holders a week before anyone else.
Get the pass firstEarly-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.
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