Author: Ally Goodman

Following the successful return of their bi-annual INDIKA Festival last November, Milap have announced an Autumn 2024 season of Indian Arts & Culture, taking place across Merseyside from September. Showcasing some of India’s most acclaimed musicians, alongside both established and emerging talent from the UK, the city region will also enjoy an expanded programme of Diwali celebrations, featuring Visual Art, Food, and more. The opening show sees Milap take a short trip across the Mersey, to present Wirral-born bass virtuoso Shez Raja in a homecoming show at Birkenhead’s Future Yard. Future Yard + Milap present Shez Raja + support…

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7th August 2024 Future Yard, Birkenhead Doors 7pm Chilean afrobeat pioneers Newen Afrobeat perform at Future Yard on Wednesday 7th August in a joint show with LUMA Creations, channelling the musical style born in the late 60s in Nigeria by the hand of Fela Kuti and Tony Allen. With 15 years of sonic trajectory, they have been opening space within the world music, jazz and global afrobeat music scenes with outstanding appearances in important events such as Womad, Womex, Felabration Nigeria, Jazz Festival in Montreal and presentations in more than 20 countries in Latin America, North America, Africa and Europe.…

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Young artists from Liverpool will kick off the daily musical line-up at the Africa Oyé festival this summer. On 22nd and 23rd June, thousands will descend on Sefton Park once again for the UK’s biggest celebration of the music and culture of Africa and the Diaspora, with two free days of fantastic music, workshops, DJs, dance, food vendors and a range of stalls and traders. Launched in 2015, ‘Oyé Introduces’ sees local artists open the musical programme on both days of the festival – following community performances by cultural organisations from across the city region – giving some of the area’s brightest young…

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Paperwork Theatre presents Lovestruck this summer, coming to Liverpool, Chester and Prescot. Get lovestruck, put your heart in their hands…

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