For those who love Oyé & want to help keep it FREE for all!

Africa Oyé Festival is organised by a very small team, so the support of volunteers helping to collect donations & conduct surveys across the festival weekend is a crucial part!

Get involved! #ListentoAfrica #Liverpool

SUNDAY

Future Yard

New music from Dele Sosimi has just landed, perfect timing for this Sunday's Afrobeat Experience show.
Get yourself warmed up with this brilliant new LP (feat Sam Duckworth / Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.)

The eight-piece Afrobeat Experience will fill our Live Room up on Sunday night, bringing a truly authentic and powerful Afrobeat sound.
With support from Dharma Collective | In association with Africa Oyé Festival
Get your tickets ⇨ bit.ly/delesAE_FY

APPLICATION DEADLINE TOMORROW!

Trade at the UK's largest celebration free celebration of African music & culture!

Whether you're applying to trade for Food & Drink (catering) or Craft & Retail (Retail), simply follow the relevant link tinyurl.com/4wct3vsz

#AfricaOye24

#Festival | 📆 There's just two months to go until Africa Oyé Festival! 🎉

Julian Marley, the son of music legend Bob Marley and a female supergroup, Les Amazones d’Afrique, will headline the acclaimed festival this summer. 🎶

22 + 23 June 2024. Save the date! bit.ly/42CVfBg

'The grassroots music sector plays a crucial role in bolstering scenes and developing talent.'

We welcome this new PRS Foundation fund for early-career promoters, supported by Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England.
accessaa.co.uk/new-funding-ma…

Fr Austin Smith Small Grants Fund Round 1 opened this week until Mon 13th May. Grants of up to £500 for small, not for profit organisations based in Liverpool 8. More info below!👇

Applications are now open for 3 graduate intern roles in our team: Artistic Administration, Technician & Marketing. If you're a recent University of Liverpool graduate, have a passion for music & are interested in learning more, find the roles on Handshake School of the Arts Careers & Employability, University of Liverpool University of LiverpoolAlumni

We have greetings from abroad today! We are honoured to announce that we have three nominations in this year's edition of the Ghana Music Awards USA! Thank y'all so much for the love and support throughout the years! Ghana Music Awards USA

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SUNDAY 🇳🇬

Having gained his formative musical education as part of Fela Kuti’s legendary Egypt 80 band. Dele Sosimi quickly gained a reputation as the premier keys player in Afrobeat...

Dele Sosimi AFROBEAT EXPERIENCE Future Yard
+ Dharma Collective

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🎉 | The city’s favourite and friendliest annual outing, Africa Oyé, invites you to the launch weekend of ‘Sefton Park Social’, raising funds to keep Oyé ‘free for all’ each summer. Africa Oyé Festival explore-liverpool.com/sefton-park-so…

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SUNDAY
Future Yard

The truth can never die.~Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the Great.
Akintokunbo Adejumo Seun Anikulapo Kuti Anap Foundation Dr Ayọ̀ Béjidé Gabriel Adekunle Ebuka Aminu Awulu 🇳🇬🇺🇸🇺🇦 Olajide Suraj OGUNLAYI Larry Oba 🐳🐋 dede mabiaku Falayajo Ayodeji Peter Fatomilola SERAP Femi Anikulapo-Kuti Africa Oyé Festival Bunmy Susan Fajana-Thomas OBE Channels Television Omoyele Sowore

We’re officially open for (social) business! Kindred money is now available for socially-trading organisations, so, if you’re an STO and interested, download our money guide and find out how to get involved kindred-lcr.co.uk/kindred-money/

#socialinvestment #socialtrade #kindred2024

On Sunday 28th April, Future Yard in assoc' with Africa Oyé Festival presents the legendary Dele Sosimi & the seven-piece Afrobeat Experience, supported by the Dharma Collective for a night of global sounds. #ListentoAfrica My preview thanks to One Fell Swoop spotlightonkulture.uk/dele-sosimi-af…

Born & raised in the Ashanti capital of Kumasi, the epicentre of high-life music, FLORENCE ADOONI is part of the exciting Frafra Gospel scene in Ghana.

Playing on Sunday 23 June at Africa Oyé Festival, Florence connects history & modern times through her contagious dance music.

#Festival | Experience 'Dancing at the Museum' with FREE pop-up performances at Leap Dance Festival inc groups Fallen Angels 💙, Mersey Swing C.I.C, 24 Hope Street Capoeira for All + more. 🕺 🏛️

📅 Saturday 27 April
📍 World Museum 🌎

More about Leap Festival ➡️ bit.ly/3x1lG8i