Tribute to Fela Kuti. With Sila & the Afrofunk Experience, B-Side Players, Rocky Dawuni, and more. Proceeds will go to the House of Hope in Africa.
Afrobeat is dense, funky, intricately-layered, groove-heavy music with an intrinsic message ? delivered through polyrhythmic beats, the sweat of the dancers, and the power of words. This July, that message will reverberate through California, when the Afrofunk Festival returns after three consecutive years of sold-out shows.
The Afrofunk Festival was born in 2005, when Kenyan singer Victor Sila joined forces with Liberian DJ Jeremiah Kpoh. Cresting the wave of the international Afrobeat revival, which shined a media spotlight on bands like Antibalas and artists like Femi Kuti, the AFF tapped into the vibrancy of the San Francisco Bay Area, the epicenter of the ?80s World Beat craze and current home to bands like Albino, Kotoja, Aphrodesia, and Sila?s own outfit, the Afro-Funk Experience. The result was a truly unique event with a righteous, humanitarian cause benefiting at-risk youth in famine- and war-torn regions of East Africa.
Tickets: $12
Location: World Beat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA
For more information:
Phone: 619-230-1190
or
Visit: docs.google.com & afrofunk.org & worldbeatcenter.org
or
Email:
Afrobeat is dense, funky, intricately-layered, groove-heavy music with an intrinsic message ? delivered through polyrhythmic beats, the sweat of the dancers, and the power of words. This July, that message will reverberate through California, when the Afrofunk Festival returns after three consecutive years of sold-out shows.
The Afrofunk Festival was born in 2005, when Kenyan singer Victor Sila joined forces with Liberian DJ Jeremiah Kpoh. Cresting the wave of the international Afrobeat revival, which shined a media spotlight on bands like Antibalas and artists like Femi Kuti, the AFF tapped into the vibrancy of the San Francisco Bay Area, the epicenter of the ?80s World Beat craze and current home to bands like Albino, Kotoja, Aphrodesia, and Sila?s own outfit, the Afro-Funk Experience. The result was a truly unique event with a righteous, humanitarian cause benefiting at-risk youth in famine- and war-torn regions of East Africa.
Tickets: $12
Location: World Beat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA
For more information:
Phone: 619-230-1190
or
Visit: docs.google.com & afrofunk.org & worldbeatcenter.org
or
Email:
