Ghana’s Rocky Dawuni to play World Peace Music Festival in LA

The performance comes two months after the Grammy-nominated musician contributed a performance to the UN’s World Environment Day virtual concert.

The free, all-ages community event will support and raise awareness for the Open Arms Food Pantry and Resource Center, which assists about 500 disadvantaged Southern California residents.

“The mission of the World Peace Music Festival is to bring awareness, understanding and exploration of unfamiliar arts to local residents ... while bringing social awareness and uplifting minority ethnic groups, particularly young people, who are neither represented nor given opportunities in mainstream media and art communities,” the festival says. 

“The message of ‘peace’ will transpire from every artist that performs – expressing tolerance, human love, cultural expression and positivity.”

Dawuni will perform with his 11-piece band and include songs from his latest release, Voice of Bunbon, Vol. 1. Th album explores the diversity of his signature ‘Afro Roots‘ sound that fuses modern and traditional sounds from Ghana, the Caribbean and across the African continent.

Dawuni is readying the release of the third video off Voice of Bunbon, Vol 1 later this month. The clip accompanies the palmwine- and highlife-inspired track ‘Woara’, and was filmed in the coastal waterways of the Greater Accra Region in Ghana.

Other confirmed artists for the World Peace Music Festival include reggae musicians Empress Akua and Jason Tamba of the Playing for Change multimedia music project, among others.