Programme
One stage. Nothing clashes with anything.
Four strands run across three nights, and none of them makes you choose. It is the only real luxury a festival this size can afford to offer.
The programme
Four things happening at once
Everything on this site runs from two in the afternoon. Nothing clashes with anything, which is the whole reason there is only ever one stage.
Strand one
The main field
One stage, three nights, and no clashes — because a festival with two stages is a festival where half the crowd is always walking. Brass and highlife on Friday, alté and drill on Saturday, and an acoustic circle that runs all Sunday afternoon.
See who is playing
Strand two
Words under the mango trees
Poetry, storytelling and a writing circle that meets at four each afternoon while the light goes. No stage and no microphone — the readers stand in the crowd, which is a rule that came from an equipment failure and stayed because it was better.
Meet the readers
Strand three
The quiet tent
The one part of the site with no amplification at all: mats, tea, a shaded corner for children in the afternoon and somewhere to sit down at eleven at night. It is the second most used thing on the site after the food row, which surprised us too.
What to expect
Strand four
Eleven vendors, one rule
Waakye, kelewele, jollof, grilled tilapia, a tea tent that never shuts, and a row of makers selling cloth, records and prints. Nothing on the site costs more than sixty cedis and nothing ever has.
Take a stall
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.
Grab your ticket
Date
Fri–Sun, 15–17 January 2027
Gates
Daily from 2pm, music until late
Where
The old nursery, Aburi Ridge
Entry
GHS 180 a night · GHS 420 full pass
Two thousand tickets, and they have gone before Christmas every year since 2022. Nothing is sold on the gate.
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