Africa Oye Festival Returns to Liverpool in 2010
Africa Oye, the UK's largest free African music festival, is back for its nineteenth year this summer in Liverpool. On June 19-20, Sefton Park will be buzzing with music from all corners of Africa and its diaspora.
LIVERPOOL, UK, May 19, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Africa Oye 2010
Sefton Park, Liverpool
Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th June 2010
12:30pm - 9:30pm on both days
A celebration of African music and culture
Admission: Free
Full line up confirmed* (running order tbc):
Saturday 19th June
Boukman Eksperyans - Haiti
Les Espoirs De Coronthie - Guinea Conakry
The Gangbe Brass Band - Benin
Ti Coca - Haiti
Victor Deme - Burkina Faso
Sunday 20th June
Andrew Tosh - Jamaica
Carlou D - Senegal
Les Freress Guisse - Senegal
Michael Rose - Jamaica
The Rasites - UK
To'Mezclao - Cuba
*Please check africaoye.com for programme updates
Africa Oye returns to Sefton Park, Liverpool in 2010, bigger and better than ever. Year on year,
the UK's largest free African music festival just keeps on growing ...
'Nowhere else in the world will you find a city overflowing with such cultural diversity that
it pulsates through the veins of every inhabitant and visitor to its shores'. - liverpool08.com
'Everything you could need for a unique African experience...a true slice of Africa'. - Virtual Festivals
Africa Oye nominated for:
Best Medium Sized Festival
The Grass Roots Festival Award
Family Festival Award
Best Toilets at the UK Festival Awards 2009
Africa Oye is the UK's largest free celebration of African music and culture and takes place annually in Liverpool. Beginning in 1992 as a series of small gigs in the city centre, the event has gone from strength-to-strength, moving to its present Sefton Park home in 2002 to cope with demand. Now in its nineteenth year, Africa Oye continues to grow. In 2009 the event attracted an audience of over 20,000 people and even more are expected to attend Oye 2010.
With too many negative representations of Africa entrenched in images of war, disease, poverty and famine, Oye seeks to redress the balance and highlight the fantastic range of cultures, foods,music and artists that make this great continent one of the most vibrant and inspiring in the world. The festival is also a truly international event that harnesses the spirit of multiculturalism and tolerance. It has played host to artists from nations right across Africa and also programmes music from South America and The Caribbean with Salsa, Soca and Reggae always a popular addition to the festivities.
But Africa Oye is about more than music. Over 40 stalls selling the best food, drink, arts and crafts and fashion fromAfrica and beyond will again be present at the Oye village along with long time supporter 'News From Nowhere', one of the UK's premier stockists of African music, with all the performing artists and much more on sale, it's a great opportunity to not only take in some of the best roots music around, but take some home with you too.
TOURING AND TRADING
Africa Oye launched an additional strand of work in April '09 funded by The Arts Council called Oye Touring and Trading. Along with 5 other national organisations [Serious, Punch Records, Joyful Noise, andCMAT] and as part of the Black Routes network, Oye produced two 2 National tours, and a Learning and Participation Project called The Legacy Roots and Music in Liverpool and will do the same in 2010/11. The first two tours were with Jamaican Reggae legend Freddie McGregor in June and Odemba OK Jazz All Stars from DR Congo in September.
HEALTH AND PARTICIPATION
2010 is the Year of Health and Well Being in the Liverpool region, and with this in mind [subject to funding enhancement] Oye hopes to introduce The Health, Learning, and Participation Zone this years at Africa Oye festival, featuring:
1.African and Caribbean Dance Workshops by Movema
2. Drumming and Percussion Workshops with local community group Beatlife and Glastonbury's Chai Chapel
3. Guitar Workshops
4. Vocal coaching
5. Capoeira Brazilian Martial Arts performances and demonstrations
6. A mobile climbing wall
7. Holistic therapies
8. African massages
9. Info stalls about health and well being
These additions for the 2010 festival see Africa Oye continue to grow, and will take place in a designated area on the festival site with its own PA system, marquee[s], performance area, platforms and risers for public viewing and participation. For updates on tours and Learning & Participation Projects please visit www.africaoye.com/tandt
THE OYÉ VILLAGE
A host of food and arts & crafts from around the world, children's entertainment featuring bouncy castles, and face painting; there is something for all the family, and returning this year - The Oye Inn is a welcome addition to the festival.
THE OYÉ INN
Once again, this year Oye will feature a state of the art 500 capacity beer tent selling ice cold draught lager, selected spirits and soft drinks all at affordable prices and served in a safe environment. To help to keep Africa Oye a free celebration of music, culture and community, please buy a pint from the Inn. Please remember - Africa Oye is a family friendly festival, please drink responsibly.
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