Marafiki Music Festival returns to Dar es Salaam on 6 October

Organised by ASEDEVA, the event brings together local and international artists to perform and share their passion for music every October in Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo. 

This festival also brings different art stakeholders and experts to share their experiences with artists in order to build artist capacity in various areas of their art and creativity – allowing patrons to enjoy wonderful live music and gain knowledge at the same time.

This year, the festival is a part of the #SANAAPRO Project, which is funded by the Embassy of France in Tanzania. Through this fund support, Marafiki Festival has managed to assemble artists and musicians from different countries for the showcases and knowledge exchange sessions.

The festival has organised a workshop for three days on 6-8 October between 10am and 4pm at Nafasi Art Space.

Festival organisers believe such workshops are an important element to all artists, music curators, event organisers and managers to develop their careers.

The following topics will be covered during the conversation/panel wrap up discussion and workshop:

• Growing Your Brand Towards International Markets.
• Fusion Technique on Traditional and Contemporary Music.
• Publishing and Copyright.

The workshops will be facilitated by:

• Lorenz Herrmann – founding member of Stone Town Records, Creative Education and Empowerment Zanzibar and HRMN Music. Manager (Siti & the band).
• Msafiri Zawose – Musician.
• John Kitime – Musician, retired member of the board of the Copyright society of Tanzania (COSOTA).

Meanwhile, the Marafiki team is inviting musicians, artists and other stakeholders who would like to join or benefit through these workshops to register their participation by calling or sending an SMS to (255) 0754 325 213. There is no limit on how many workshops you can attend.

Twenty bands featuring more than 128 artists will perform live at Marafiki Music Festival 2022. The official artist's lineup will include Anna Katoa, Ricky na Marafiki, Theresa Ng’ambi, Papillion, Katoi wa Tabaka, Vitalis Maembe, Mishi Labda Kesho, Steve DC and Warriors from the East, among others.

Tickets can be purchased online through NILIPE APP or physically at ASEDEVA Kinondoni, Nafasi Art Space – Mikocheni, Firefly Bagamoyo – Bagamoyo and Alliance Française – Upanga.

For ticket booking and for more information, contact ASEDEVA on (255) 0754 325 213. the following officials may also be contacted via mail or phone call:

ASEDEVA artistic director Isack Abeneko through isackabeneko@gmail.com, or Marafiki Music Festival manager Upendo Manase via upendomanase01@gmail.com.

To learn more about ASEDEVA visit here. You can see full artist line-up here.