Africa Oyé has announced the Liverpool talent that will be showcased as part of the ‘Oyé Introduces’ programme at this year’s Sefton Park festival. Launched in 2015, ‘Oyé Introduces’ sees North West artists open both days of the festival, giving some…
Posted on Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 at 1:29 pm in Festival, Music, News, What's On.
Artists from Senegal, Haiti and the US are amongst the next wave of artists set to perform at the 27th annual Africa Oyé festival this summer. Taking place in Liverpool’s Sefton Park on the 22nd and 23rd of June, the music and culture…
Posted on Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 at 12:41 pm in Festival, Music, News, What's On.
What is an Oyé Rep? Each year, an enormous amount of effort goes into ensuring that the festival takes place. Due to the ever-growing popularity of the event this is becoming increasingly challenging. That is where you come in! The role…
Posted on Friday, March 1st, 2019 at 1:26 pm in Festival, News.
Africa Oyé and Mandela8 present… BCUC Tuesday 23rd October, 2018 District, Liverpool ‘Celebrating the building of the Nelson Mandela memorial in Princes Park’ “BCUC will come correct with their energetic, unique and magic formula; the voices of their ancestors, mixed with funk, punk-rock…
Posted on Tuesday, September 11th, 2018 at 3:09 pm in Music, News, What's On.
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.
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