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Osi Otsemobor and Tamerri Festival
Organized by Root n Raw, Tamerri Festival is a two-day event started in 2016 in Maitama, Abuja aimed at appreciating interconnectedness. It features music, poetry, a village market, meditation sessions, art and photo exhibitions, art, music, performance and fashion from around Nigeria.
Osagie Alonge: The Evolution on Brymo
Bantu Hour with Ade Bantu feat Dabyna, Sina Ayinde Bakare and BOJ
Dabyna describes himself as “the bridge linking the past, present and future of rock ‘n’ roll”. Adegoke Odukoya, better known as Adé Bantu (born 13 July 1971 in Wembley, London), is a Nigerian-German musician, producer and activist. He is best known as the founder of the Afro-German musical collective and NGO Brothers Keepers and as the front man of the 12 piece band Bantu. He received the Kora Award (the Pan-African equivalent of the Grammy) for his album “Fuji Satisfaction” in …
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Salam Salam Agidgbo Band
Salam Salam Agidigbo Band, a flexible 4/8 piece band, based in Lagos, and led by 70 – plus Jimi Badmus, are exponents of the highly infectious Agidigbo genre of Yoruba music culture. Agidigbo pre-dates, and has influenced major Yoruba/South-West Nigeria/Beninoise music forms, such as Apala, Sakara, Juju, and Fuji, with the last decade seeing a resurgence of this almost lost art.
In the Mix with Unoma Giese
“Where we are now…will we become a separate race within a quagmire of ethnic discord…or can we be the bridge to healing in an increasingly fractured world?” Writer and poet Unoma Giese will be in discussion with various guests, some mixed race, others not, on the politics of mixed race in Nigeria, interspersed with music by mixed race artists like Nneka, Ade Bantu, Bob Marley, Drake, Sade and others.
Bantu Hour with Ade Bantu and guests: Temi Dollface and Brymo
Adegoke Odukoya, better known as Adé Bantu (born 13 July 1971 in Wembley, London), is a Nigerian-German musician, producer and activist. He is best known as the founder of the Afro-German musical collective and NGO Brothers Keepers and as the front man of the 12 piece band Bantu. He received the Kora Award (the Pan-African equivalent of the Grammy) for his album “Fuji Satisfaction” in 2005. In Thursday’s programming, he features singers Temi Dollface and Brymo. Temi Phil-Ebosie better known as …
Highlife, My Life with Benson Idonijie
Benson Idonije is Nigeria’s most revered music critic and first manager of Nigerian Afro-Beat legend, late Fela Anikulako Kuti. He’s also the grandfather of Burna Boy, a Nigerian reggaedancehall singer and songwriter, whom he never wanted to go into music. Today, grandpa is the grandson’s music director.
PASS Lagos Daily Runnings: Friday, 24th June 2016
Pan African Space Station at Freedom Park in Lagos, 23rd -26th of June 2016 The PASS pop-up studio as an intimate, improvisatory live space becomes one for entangling different realities and experiences – with participants and listeners prompted by ideas of utopia and oppression, history and the future, borders, time, art and technology. Recordings from the live sessions culminate in an archive of experiments: speaking, listening, playing, partying and community. From June 23-26, PASS descends on Freedom Park in Lagos, …
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Tags: Ade Bantu, Dami Ajayi, Oris Aigbokhaevbolo, PASS Lagos, Tamerri Festival, Temitope Kogbe
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PASS Lagos Daily Runnings: Thursday, 23rd June 2016
Pan African Space Station at Freedom Park in Lagos, 23rd -26th of June 2016 The PASS pop-up studio as an intimate, improvisatory live space becomes one for entangling different realities and experiences – with participants and listeners prompted by ideas of utopia and oppression, history and the future, borders, time, art and technology. Recordings from the live sessions culminate in an archive of experiments: speaking, listening, playing, partying and community. From June 23-26, PASS descends on Freedom Park in Lagos, …
Bantu Hour with Ade Bantu and guests: Adunni & Nerfetiti, Dabyna and Aramide
Adegoke Odukoya, better known as Adé Bantu (born 13 July 1971 in Wembley, London), is a Nigerian-German musician, producer and activist. He is best known as the founder of the Afro-German musical collective and NGO Brothers Keepers and as the front man of the 12 piece band Bantu. He received the Kora Award (the Pan-African equivalent of the Grammy) for his album “Fuji Satisfaction” in 2005. In Friday’s programming, he features musicians Adunni & Nefertiti, Dabyna Poll-Abraham and Aramide. Adunni & …
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Tags: Ade Bantu, Adunni Ade, Aramide, Bantu Hour, Dabyna, Nerfetiti, PASS Lagos
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