African Beats Festival 2021

African heat is approaching Warsaw! Take a look at the hottest event of this summer - the African Beats Festival. This event is a celebration of African music that will make you feel the atmosphere of the African continent. Get ready for a magical trance night to the accompaniment of the best ethnic sounds straight from the homeland of Afrobeat.

During our event, you will hear the sounds of the desert that will take you on a journey around Africa. These melodies will make you dance! Expect a massive dose of Afrobeat, World Music and Saharan Blues. In addition to artistic values, you will have the opportunity to try African cuisine, visit the African Market and spend time with other lovers of African culture.

If you love travelling, good food or beautiful music, you can't miss it. African Beats Festival is a place created for you!

LINEUP

Mamadou & Sama Yoon (Poland/Senegal)

The Afronauts (Pland/Marocco/USA)

EL Mezouaria (Poland/Marocco)

Ayoub Houmanna (Marocco)

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Here is a selection of the best Polish afrobeat artists, whose energy and passion for music combined with the love for the continent give their work a unique vibe. If you hear them once, you'll only want more.

ADDITIONAL ATTRACTIONS

DRUMMING WORKSHOP

Instructors:Marek Ajsu Malinowski
Amadou Fola

During the classes, you will learn techniques for playing African djembe drums. The focus will be lied on developing the technique, learning traditional African rhythms and building arrangements. We will also show you the basic elements of solo improvisations.

Registration for the workshop by e-mail marek.malinowski.it@gmail.com

FIRE SHOW 

Fire shows will be performed by the best Polish groups. They will be a great complement to the African sounds flowing from the stage. The shows will run concurrently with the concerts and will start after 20:00. It's going to be hot!

AFRICAN MARKET 

The African festival market, where you will feel and taste Africa. You can find there unique items and clothes with an African soul. Remember to bring a large shopping bag with you!

ANNOUNCER

DAWID ALBAAJ

The singer heading from Tri-City is bursting with good energy on stage and infects with positive vibration. As a presenter, he enriches events with a hint of Jamaicannes. If you are not happy to hear this, you don't know him yet!

Do you want to be an exhibitor? Contact Konrad konrad@agencjaperspektywy.pl

Moroever:

Food Truck ZoneChill-Out Zone

Organizer: Agencja Perspektywy

www.agencjaperspektywy.pl

Partners:Lokaah
Hit The Road Music Studio
Klub Progresja

Tickets

Available online:https://www.interticket.pl/.../african-beats-festival...

And offline:Media Markt (only in Poland)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

MAMADOU & SAMA YOON

Their music is extremely addictive rhythms from the border of etno folk, afrobeat, oriental, jazz and reggae that hypnotize and make you dance. The group was founded on the initiative of Mamadou Diouf - a Senegalese artist who is one of the precursors of African music in Poland. The band's concerts are an interesting journey through African culture and customs, and in combination with the dance character of the songs, they become an excellent food for both body and soul. The song lyrics are mainly in Wolof (Mamadou's native language). They tell about longing for the country, love, tradition, respect for other people and the search for knowledge.

https://youtu.be/IL5JK5UvtfY
https://youtu.be/_oFmSEf5RQw

THE AFRONAUTSThe Afronauts is one of the best Afrobeat bands in Poland! The group consists of eight musicians from all over the world who win the hearts of listeners from the very first sound. The band combines the best of funk, jazz and African music. Their arrangements make the stage red hot. The Afronauts landed in Krakow in January 2019, astonishing the audience that was not prepared for such a powerful dose of energy. Currently, the band's repertoire includes indigenous afro-beat hits from creators from Nigeria, Mali and Ghana as well as original compositions.

The Afronauts plays in the squad:

Alex Clov (USA) - baritone sax
Dominik Podgórski (PL) – percussion
Ethan Smith (South Africa) - sax alt
Grzegorz Kosowski (PL) – guitar
Gaspard Benoit (France) – trombone
Hicham Bajjou (Morocco) – vocals
Kacper Matuszewski (PL) – drums
Mateusz Mazurkiewicz (PL) - bass guitar

https://youtu.be/9id0aKj9dZY
https://youtu.be/hxBB5AKsjxI

AYOUB HOUMANNA 

Houmann's Ayoub travels the world collecting along the way, like spices for his musical tajine, the metaphysical nature of Saharan Berber blues, the virtuosity of fiery flamenco and the innovation of Western music. The artist will gladly take you on a journey and in accordance with his motto: "life is music and music is an adventure", he will show you not only the distant landscapes of music but also the closeness of all of us in dance, music and love to the world around us

https://youtu.be/eTSV9IOdiAY
https://youtu.be/poreTiFpCok

EL MEZOUARIAThe Sahara's expansion to southern Africa is to be contained by a million-tree wall stretching from Senegal to Djibouti. The desert, having heard about the plans of the inhabitants of the Black Continent, decided to expand in an immaterial way, in a completely different direction.

Its messenger is Mustapha El Boudani, a native of M'hamid El Ghizlane - the gateway to the sands of the Sahara. By singing hypnotic songs in the traditional Hassane language, he dragged him like quicksand into the task assigned to him by the musicians of Europe and the United States. Now, in a composition named after the Sahrawi dunes, they want to shower you with sound. Note by note, grain by grain by the wind, it absorbs like dunes - Mesouaria

The team consists of:

Mustapha El Boudani - vocal, guitar, gumbri, djembe
Jakub Jantos - drums / percussion
Sam Levin - bass, percussion/drums
Mateusz Czarnecki - Tenor saxophone, djembe
Michał Sosna - Tenor/baritone saxophone, vocals
Leopold Zawadzki - Guitar, Djembe

https://youtu.be/22VNotR2b9Ehttps://youtu.be/O01KzGIpXks

Do you want to become a patron? Contact: biuro@agencjaperspektywy.pl