Twenty-six acts, three nights, one wristband
Six headliners, twenty more you will be glad you saw, and three rooms within ten minutes of each other. Contracts signed in August — nothing here is provisional.
Headliners
The six on the poster
Every one of them is playing a full set, not a guest spot. Set times are on the schedule page and they do not move.
Kwabena Asare
Afro-jazz · bass
Twenty years in other people's rhythm sections and a debut record at forty-one. Brings a nine-piece and gives every one of them a solo.
Efua Mensimah
Highlife · voice
Sings the Ga and Twi standards her grandmother sang, over a band that is half her age and twice as loud. Closes Friday.
Nii Lartey
Palm-wine · guitar
One guitar, one voice, no monitors. Has played the Arts Centre courtyard every December since 2009 and will not play anywhere with a roof.
Serwaa Boateng
Amapiano · selector
Builds a four-hour set out of records nobody else in Accra owns. The Late Room exists because she asked for it in 2022.
Adjoa Nyarko
Gospel-soul · voice
Came up singing in a Teshie choir and still rehearses there on Thursdays. Sunday night belongs to her and she brings the choir with her.
Abena Owusu-Ansah
Afrobeat · alto sax
Studied in Kumasi, spent four years in Lagos horn sections, came home with a band and a set that does not stop between numbers.
Season pass · three nights
04 — 06 DEC
The full bill
All twenty-six, by night
Every act on every stage. Nothing on this list is a maybe — contracts were signed in August.
Friday
04 December
Kwabena Asare & the Nine
Afro-jazz
Main Stage
Efua Mensimah
Highlife
Main Stage
The Osu Seven
Guitar band
Main Stage
Ama Bonsu
Neo-soul
The Yard
Kpanlogo Collective
Ga percussion
The Yard
Selector Fiifi
Vinyl highlife
The Yard
Nana Yaa
Alté
Late Room
Saturday
05 December
Nii Lartey
Palm-wine guitar
The Yard
Serwaa Boateng
Amapiano
Late Room
Kwame & Kwakye
Hiplife
Main Stage
Dela Mensah Band
Afrobeat
Main Stage
Sister Akos
Gospel highlife
Main Stage
Tema Youth Brass
Brass band
The Yard
Adjoa & the Kete Drummers
Traditional
The Yard
DJ Odartey
Afro house
Late Room
Kofi Blak
Drill
Late Room
Sunday
06 December
Adjoa Nyarko & the Teshie Choir
Gospel-soul
Main Stage
Abena Owusu-Ansah Quintet
Afrobeat
The Yard
Highlife Revival Orchestra
Big band highlife
Main Stage
Naa Dedei
Ga gospel
Main Stage
Kojo Antwi Tribute Band
Highlife
The Yard
Accra Youth Strings
Strings
The Yard
Papa Yaw
Palm-wine
The Yard
The Closing Session
Everyone on stage
Main Stage
Selector Fiifi (b2b Serwaa)
Records only
Late Room
Ekow Baiden
Jazz piano
Late Room
Stages
Three rooms, one wristband
Everything is within a ten-minute walk. The wristband works at all three and you can move as often as you like.
Independence Square
Main Stage
The big one, facing the sea. Covered stage, partial cover for the crowd, and a PA you can hear cleanly from the back of the square.
12,000 standing
Arts Centre courtyard
The Yard
Five minutes' walk. Acoustic sets, brass, drummers and the family area until eight. The best-sounding outdoor room in Accra and nobody will convince us otherwise.
1,400 seated and standing
Basement, High Street
Late Room
Opens at 22:00 and stops when the taxis start. Season and backstage passes only — it sells out first, every single year.
600, over-18s
Asked often
About getting in and getting around
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.
What can I bring in?
Yourself, a phone, a refillable bottle and a folding chair for The Yard. No glass, no professional cameras without a photo pass, no outside drinks. There are eleven food traders and four bars inside.
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.
