The sixth edition of the Reggae City festival will be held from April 28 to 30 on the esplanade of the Ouaga-2000 Sports Palace. The announcement was made by the promoter of the festival, this April 7, 2023 in Ouagadougou, during a press conference.
After its postponement in 2019, it is finally on April 28, 29 and 30, 2023 that the 6th edition of the Reggae city festival will be held. This festival will be placed under the celebration of the concert of the 35 years of career of the Ivorian reegea maker, Ismaël Isaac.
On the program, these are performances by artists, live concerts, a reggae edition village, shopping malls, exhibitions, spaces for children, which will punctuate this festival. According to Karim The same alias Sams’K The Jahpromoter of the Reggae festival citythe festival wants to be a dynamic to invite more festival-goers around reggae music. For him, il is about getting festival-goers to find themselves in good vibrations through the music of ” Jah ».
Also, Sams’K Le Jah hinted that major innovations will affect this edition. It is about the relocation of the festival to the Sports Palace of Ouaga 2000. For him, this relocation will allow the artists to be able to do the live well.
”Reggae city, these are live concerts”
To this is added the “reggae and root”. According to Sams’K Le Jah, it is a question of inviting traditional music groups to make creations to find a balance between “reggae and traditional music” because for him, reggae has its origins in traditional music.
All these activities put together aim to sell the image of Burkina Faso and also to contribute to the development of the country, according to the promoter of the Reggae city festival.
« Reggae city is live concerts. (…) The village also means promoting our local products because, who says reggae, makes the link with traditional Africa. Because it’s music that comes from there, so allowing us to reconnect with our traditional values, with our traditional products, that is to say an endogenous vision of what we do, it’s for we super important “, he said.
For the organization of this edition which is expected twenty artists, the estimated budget is 29,000,000 CFA francs.
During this press conference, the Reggae City festival promoter indicated that the results of past editions were positive. ” I will say that it is a largely positive assessment because at the first edition, over the three days, the site was packed. Also, we had artists who came and demonstrated that reggae is lived “, he argued.
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