Our friends at Liverpool Mental Health Consortium have put together a quick survey to find out more about festival audiences and their wellbeing. If you have a spare 2 or 3 minutes we’d greatly appreciate you filling it out by…
Posted on Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 at 3:58 pm in Education, Festival, News.
Follow our Africa Oye 2017 Spotify playlist and listen to the international artists featured in our 25th Anniversary Festival line-up. The playlist includes top tracks from Mokoomba, Max Romeo, Bonga and more. Just log in to your Spotify account and get…
Posted on Thursday, June 15th, 2017 at 8:04 pm in Music, News.
Given recent events both in the local area and the terrorist attacks nationally, Merseyside Police have conducted a review of the policing plans for Africa Oye. There is no intelligence to suggest there will be any further attacks nationally or…
Posted on Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 at 5:22 pm in Festival, News.
Oyé Introduces: Anwar Ali & Dave Owen Sunday 18th June 2017 Anwar Ali originally comes from the Bajuni islands off the coast of East Africa. He moved to the UK as a refugee. Anwar plays the oud, a Middle Eastern…
Posted on Sunday, June 4th, 2017 at 8:46 am in Festival.
Oyé Introduces: Nutribe & Butcha B Saturday 17th June 2017 Nutribe & Butcha B come to the festival as part of COLLECTA, self-described as ‘da wickedest’ multi-disciplinary arts collective in the UK’, creating works of music, dance, photography, film and…
Posted on Sunday, June 4th, 2017 at 8:41 am in Festival.
Bonga (Angola) Saturday 17th June 2017 Bonga, who first played Oyé in 2011 is one of the most successful artists in his country’s history. His music has been the soundtrack to Angola’s struggle for independence, its civil war and is…
Posted on Sunday, June 4th, 2017 at 8:33 am in Festival.
Dizzy Mandjeku & Odemba OK Allstars (Democratic Republic of Congo) Sunday 18th June Led and conducted by guitarist and living legend Dizzy Mandjeku, former member of Franco’s OK Jazz, the magnificent 12-piece Odemba OK Allstars are the original exponents of…
Posted on Sunday, June 4th, 2017 at 8:31 am in Festival.
HAJAmadagascar & The Groovy People (Madagascar) Sunday 18th June 2017 When HAJAmadagascar and his band turn up the heat, even the coolest audience melts after just a short time. Like a river that overflows its dams, sweeping away everything in…
Posted on Sunday, June 4th, 2017 at 8:24 am in Festival.
Diabel Cissokho (Senegal) Sunday 18th June 2017 Diabel is part of the great line of Cissokho griots. Growing up in Dakar and Tambacounda, Diabel was surrounded by a rich musical heritage and a family of musicians and his affinity with…
Posted on Sunday, June 4th, 2017 at 8:08 am in Festival.
Daby Touré (Mauritania) Saturday 17th June 2017 There are certain people in life who have such a unique energy that it demands to be shared. Daby Touré never fails to astound audiences with his ethereal voice, masterful guitar work and…
Posted on Sunday, June 4th, 2017 at 8:03 am in Festival.
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