The people who make it possible
Sponsors, partners and the businesses who have been with us since the courtyard. Here is who they are, what it costs and what they got.
Reach
Who is actually in the room
Gate counts from the 2025 edition and an independent audience survey of 1,100 people. We will send you the raw deck if you ask.
18
,000+
Through the gates in 2025
71
%
Aged between 18 and 34
63
%
Came back the following year
The people who make it possible
Partnership
Three ways in
Prices are for the 2026 edition and include production of everything your name goes on. Nothing here is a media buy — you are buying a place inside the thing.
Stage partner
₵180,000
Your name on one of the three stages for the whole festival, and on everything that names it.
Stage naming across all print and digital
Two activation spaces on site
Twenty backstage passes
Named in every press release
One only, per stage
Official partner
₵65,000
Presence across the site, the programme and the fence, without the naming rights.
Mark on the fence, programme and site
One activation space
Eight backstage passes
Named in the wrap report
Supporter
₵18,000
For smaller brands and for the local businesses who have been with us longest.
Mark on the site and in the programme
Four season passes
A trader pitch at cost if you want one
In their words
What the people who paid us said
We gave them a car park and eleven weeks. They came back with a site plan, a fire route and a stage that went up in two days. I have run events for fifteen years and I have never had a production partner hand me a document I did not have to correct.
Naa Adei Quaye
Head of events, Silverbird Ghana
Long relationships
Four names we have grown up with
Between them these four have been with us for twenty-eight partner-years. None of them signed a two-page contract the first time.
Silverbird Ghana
Partner since 2019
Six cinema-forecourt shows a year and the Friday stage at the festival. The longest relationship we have and the one that taught us how to write a proper site plan.
Kasapa Telecom
Partner since 2022
Season-long brand activation plus their own staff night at the Conference Centre. Two thousand people, one evening, no snags worth reporting.
Alliance Française d'Accra
Partner since 2017
The garden series every March. Small rooms, difficult acoustics, and the reason our acoustic sets sound the way they do.
Golden Tulip
Partner since 2023
Artist accommodation for the festival weekend and four corporate nights a year. Forty rooms held every December since.
Asked often
What partners ask before signing
What is Rhythm Festival?
Three nights of live Ghanaian music across three stages at Independence Square, Accra, run by Rhythm every December since 2014. Twenty-six acts this year, from highlife bands old enough to have played Independence to producers who have never released anything on physical media.
When and where is it?
04—06 December 2026. The Main Stage is at Independence Square, Accra, The Yard is the Arts Centre courtyard five minutes' walk away, and the Late Room is the basement under the old Ghana Airways building on High Street. One wristband covers all three.
Is it suitable for children?
Under-12s go free with a paying adult and there is a shaded family area beside The Yard until 20:00. After that the Main Stage gets loud and the Late Room is over-18 with ID, no exceptions.
Partnership
The 2026 pack is forty pages and we will send it today
Audience data, site plans, last year's wrap report and what each tier actually delivered. Email partners@rhythm.com or ring the office and ask for Esi.
04—06 December 2026
Three nights. Twenty-six acts. One wristband.
Independence Square, Accra. Season passes are on sale now and the Late Room sells out first, every year, without fail.
