About
Eighteen years of loud nights
We started in 2008 with a hired rig and a school field because the bands we liked deserved better than the PA they were getting. The rule has not changed since.
Who we are
We started because the sound was bad
In 2008 four of us hired a rig, a generator and a school field in Dansoman because every band we liked was playing through a PA that made them sound like a radio in another room. Two hundred people came. The following year it was eleven hundred and we had to turn people away at the fence.
Eighteen years later Tempo runs four nights a year at Black Star Square and builds the stages, rigs and crews behind a good many of everybody else's. The rule has not changed: book the room for the band that is playing in it, and the rest follows.
See the line-upHow we work
Four things we do not trade
They read as small decisions and they are the whole difference between a night people talk about and a night people leave early.
The rig serves the band
Every main-stage act gets a real soundcheck. If that means gates open fifteen minutes late, gates open fifteen minutes late.
Artists are paid on the night
Cleared before the last shuttle leaves, every time, including the openers. It should not be a selling point and in this market it is.
Nobody gets lost in a crowd
Trained stewards on every barrier, a welfare tent that is lit and staffed all night, and a stage manager who will stop a set.
The money stays in Accra
Crews, kitchens, printers, security and stage build are all hired within Greater Accra. Twenty kitchens in the food yard, none of them a chain.
Since 2008
A city this loud deserves a night that can carry it
Four nights a year, one square, and every crew hired within Greater Accra.
Impact
Get a ticketThe numbers speak for themselves
24
+
Acts booked across four stages
9.4
k
Through the gates in 2025
18
yrs
Of Tempo nights in Accra
Afterwards
What the square says
Collected on the way out and after the shuttles, which is the only time anybody tells you the truth about a festival.
Audience
I have been to every one since 2019 and it is the only night in Accra where I know the sound will be right. You can hear the bass guitar. At a festival. That should not be remarkable and it is.
Abena Mensah
Osu · seventh year
Audience
We sponsored the food yard expecting a logo on a banner. What we got was nine thousand people who now know our name and a production team that answered every email in a day.
Yaw Boakye
Nsuo Water · partner
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