The bill
Who is playing
Six acts, four stages and one running order the whole city will have an opinion about by the end of the week.
The bill
Six acts, one night
Booked to argue with each other rather than to agree. Set times are on the schedule; the running order is decided by who can follow whom, not by who sold the most records.
Ama Serwaa
Highlife · Headline
Thirty years of palm-wine guitar in one set, with the eleven-piece band she has kept together since the Osu days.
Kwabena Osei
Afrobeats · Main stage
Three albums in four years and a live show that has outgrown every room in Kumasi. This is his first Accra date since 2024.
Selorm Adzah
Alté · Palm Grove
Ewe folk melodies run through a modular rig. Nobody else on the bill sounds remotely like it, which is exactly why he is on it.
Adjoa Boateng
Gospel-soul · Main stage
A choir of forty behind one voice. She closed the 2025 bill and the crowd would not leave the square for an hour afterwards.
Kojo Nkansah
Drill · The Basement
Tema drill, delivered over a live drummer rather than a laptop. Late slot, low ceiling, and the loudest forty minutes of the night.
Naa Dedei
Neo-soul · Palm Grove
Ga lyrics over a rhythm section that has backed half this bill at one time or another. The set everyone tells you about afterwards.
Where they play
Four stages, three minutes apart
You can walk the whole site in the time it takes to change a guitar. Nothing clashes by accident — the schedule is built so you can see every headline slot if you want to.
Main stage
6,000 standing
The south end of the square, facing away from the sea so the wind does not take the top end off the mix. Full band rigs only.
Palm Grove
1,200 standing
Under the trees on the east side, where the sound is close and the sets are the ones people talk about on the way home.
The Basement
800 standing
The old customs hall under the north stand. Low ceiling, no seats, 18+, and the loudest room on the site by a distance.
The drum circle
No barrier, no bill
Open ground beside the food yard. Anyone can play, nobody is booked, and it runs from gates until the shuttles leave.
Playing?
The next bill is booked in March
Send two live recordings — not studio versions — a stage plot and where we can come and see you play. Everything is listened to by a person, and everyone gets an answer whether it is yes or no.
Send a submissionOr work on the crew
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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