Tickets
Two thousand tickets, and none of them are sold on the gate.
Buy early — the full pass has gone before Christmas in each of the last four years, and there is no door list to be added to.
One night
180GHS · per night
Pick your night. Friday is the brass, Saturday is the long one, Sunday is the slow one — and Sunday is the one people wish they had chosen.
Entry from 2pm until close
All four strands, no clashes
Shuttle from Accra and back
Under-12s free with an adult
Buy a night
Full pass
420GHS · all three nights
Three nights for the price of two and a third, which is how most of the field gets in. Sold out before Christmas in each of the last four years.
All three nights, in and out freely
First refusal on next year at this price
Priority on the writing circle
A printed running order on the gate
Buy a full pass
Supporter
900GHS · all three nights
The same festival, no extra access, and a third of it goes straight into the fee pot for the acts who have never played a festival before. About two hundred people buy one every year.
Everything in the full pass
Funds two first-time acts' fees
Named on the board at the gate, if you want
An invitation to the planning table in June
Support the bill
The small print
Written in ordinary words
Four things worth knowing before you pay for anything, none of which are hidden behind a link at the bottom of the page.
Nothing is sold on the gate
Two thousand tickets, and the field genuinely holds two thousand people. When they are gone they are gone — there is no door list and turning people away at the top of the hill is the worst evening of our year.
If you cannot come
Full refund up to fourteen days before, no reason needed and no fee. Inside fourteen days we will move it to a name you give us, or roll it to next year. What we will not do is keep your money and say nothing.
How to pay
Mobile money, bank transfer or card. Payment plans over three months on the full pass and the supporter ticket — ask for one, it is not a favour and nobody is checking.
Access
The main field and the food row are firm ground and flat. The orchard is not, and the walk in from the car park is four hundred metres of gravel. Tell us in advance and we will bring you up in the site vehicle and hold a place at the front.
FAQs
What kind of event is this, exactly?
Three nights of music, poetry, quiet spaces and a marketplace, on a ridge an hour above Accra. Somewhere between a festival and a very large family gathering — open skies, grounded people, and a crowd that mostly knows each other by the second night.
Where is the venue?
The old nursery grounds on the Aburi ridge, about forty-five minutes out of Accra on a good day and ninety on a Friday. We send a pin, a bus timetable and a walking route from the lorry station once you have a ticket.
Is there camping?
Not this edition. Each night runs from two in the afternoon until late, and guests go home or to somewhere nearby. We keep a list of guesthouses on the ridge and in Aburi town, and the last shuttle back into Accra leaves an hour after the final set.
Will there be food?
A rotating row of eleven vendors, all of them from Aburi or Accra, cooking until close. Waakye, kelewele, jollof, grilled tilapia, plenty that is vegetarian and a tea tent that never shuts. Nothing on site costs more than GHS 60.
Can I perform or share something?
Yes. There is an open circle each afternoon and a sign-up sheet at the info tent from noon. Bring an instrument, a poem or a story — the only rule is that you finish inside eight minutes, because forty other people are waiting.
Can I bring children?
Under-12s come in free with an adult and there is a shaded corner with mats, drums and someone watching it all afternoon. After nine the volume on the main field is not really for small ears, and most families head off around then.
