This is the West African Festival 2011 micro-site. You will find all the information about the festival and you can also leave your comments about your festival experience!
Thank you!!
The most fantastic festival yet! Thank you for the love!!
Here are some images from Saturday. There will be many more posted in the next few days, so look out for the link to Shane Rozario’s gallery!
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Photography by Shane Rozario
Drumming and Dance WORKSHOPS
For those who are planning to attend the workshops, please see confirmed times below;
1.30pm – 2.00pm KIDS DRUMMING WORKSHOP* (with Pape Mbaye)
3.00pm – 3.45pm ADULTS DRUMMING WORKSHOP* (with Sibo Bangoura)
3.45pm – 4.30pm ADULTS DANCE WORKSHOP (with Fode Mane)
**Djembes available but numbers limited.
…HAVE FUN!!
A Drum Workhop starts of the afternoon with a bang! Image : Rozario
Festival moves to the beat and rhythm of life
The Sun-Herald‘s Andrew Taylor had a nice chat with musicians PAPE M’BAYE and SIBO BANGOURA on West African music and dance. Check out the article and video-interview by clicking here
Pape M'baye
Sibo Bangoura
LUCKY LARTEY from Ghana joins the KEYIM BA Dancers at the Festival 2011
The magnificent LUCKY LARTEY from GHANA joins the KEYIM BA dancers this year at the Festival for a high energy show PLUS he will perform an Afro-Contemporary piece earlier in the program… more details to be announced soon….
Amazing Dancing with Lucky Lartey from Ghana
A highlight of the Sydney multicultural events calendar!
The West African Festival 2011 presents some of Australia’s most prominent West African musicians and dancers of both African and Australian origin. The impressive line-up includes Pape M’Baye & Chosani Afrique; Afro Moses; Errol Renaud & Caribbean Soul; Karifi; Sibo Bangoura with Keyim Ba; Miriam Lieberman; as well as a special guest appearance from internationally renowned Epizo Bangoura. These amazing artists take the audience on an exciting musical journey into West Africa – promising explosive and powerful African drumming, high energy dancing and the alluring sounds of West African melody and song.
The festival is a day/night event that will include FREE drumming workshops for both adults and children with Djembe greats – brothers Mohamed & Sibo Bangoura-, a dynamic African dance workshop (also FREE), continuous live performance throughout the day from a stellar line-up of musicians as well as food by African Feeling Restaurant, African designs by Kindia Design, and many craft – and other – stalls of interest.
Media Sponsor announced
The West African Festival 2011 is thrilled to have DIASPORA WORLD BEAT on board as the Festival Media Sponsor. DIASPORA is Australia’s dedicated portal for world, African, Caribbean, Latin, Reggae, Eastern, Brazilian, Blues, Indigenous and Local independent musical culture.
Diaspora World Beat was founded in 1999 by Cristina Dio and Richard Jasiutowicz to fill a void left by the mainstream media. Initially a print magazine, Diaspora World Beat was released quarterly with pertinent articles and reviews balancing international and local “world music” artists, releases and events. Today, Diaspora is an online e-magazine, still the only world beat publication in Australia and steadily becoming one of the most comprehensive world music information resources on the web.
The West African festival 2011 thanks Cristina Dio and Diaspora for their massive support to the festival and their terrific work promoting music from diverse cultures.
2011 Line up announced
The fantastic lineup for the West African Festival 2011 has been announced…..including Pape MBaye & Chosani Afrique, Sibo Bangoura with Keyim Ba, Afro Moses, Miriam Lieberman, Karifi, Errol Renaud & Caribbean Soul PLUS very special guest, multi-award winning international visiting artist Epizo Bangoura.
