{"id":41575,"date":"2019-07-17T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/nyege-nyege-festival-unveils-2019-line-up\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:07:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:07:30","slug":"nyege-nyege-festival-unveils-2019-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/nyege-nyege-festival-unveils-2019-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyege Nyege Festival unveils 2019 line up"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27553 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-Slikback.jpg\" width=\"1002\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-Slikback.jpg 934w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-Slikback-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-Slikback-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-Slikback-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-Slikback-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Three days of music with more than 300 artists from over 30 countries,\u00a0at the source of the\u00a0Nile river in Jinja, Uganda.<\/h4>\n<p>Kampala-based collective\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/nyege-nyege-tapes\/\">Nyege Nyege<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is back with its fifth edition. After the threats of cancellation they received last year, they seem to be more determined than ever to prolongate their utopic\u00a0temporary autonomous zone at the source of the Nile river.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s line up spreads through five stages, highlighting the East-African scene they have helped developing for years :\u00a0Slikback, Duke &amp; MCZO, Sisso, Jay Mitta, MC Yallah, Rey Sapienz, Jako Maron will be representing Nyege Tapes and Hakuna Kulala labels on the festival&#8217;s stage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rGctbYswDNY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This year, the festival also explores\u00a0the new African alternative pop scenes. Nigerian alt\u00e9 pionneer\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/santi\/\">Santi<\/a><\/span>, who pushes the boundaries of mainstream music, as well as Ugandan dancehall Queen Sheeba\u00a0and South African rapper\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/yugen-blakrok\/\">Yugen Blakrok<\/a>\u00a0will be performing at Nyege Nyege.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of this year&#8217;s highlights is probably Congolese band\u00a0Fulu Mziki, who&#8217;ll be doing its first performance\u00a0outside of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and will be in Uganda for a month building instruments, costumes and recording an album in the Nyege Nyege Studio.<\/p>\n<p>Other noteworthy acts are also Swiss-Congolese experimental-techno artist\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/bonaventure-interview\/\">Bonaventure<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0Brasilian hardcore baile funk pionneer\u00a0Badsista, Detroit legend Juan Atkins\u00a0and Chinese underground producers\u00a0Hyph11e and Gooooose.<\/p>\n<p>Nyege Nyege Festival will take place between Septembre 5th and 8th in Jinja, Uganda.\u00a0Check the full line up and book your tickets on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyegenyege.com\/tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">festival&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Read Next:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/whatsapp-gqom-hub\/\">WhatsApp: South Africa\u2019s hub for gqom<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27546\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-2019.jpg\" width=\"1090\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-2019.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-2019-759x427.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-2019-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-2019-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nyege-Nyege-Festival-2019-375x211.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days of music with more than 300 artists from over 30 countries,\u00a0at the source of the\u00a0Nile river in Jinja, Uganda. Kampala-based collective\u00a0Nyege Nyege\u00a0is back with its fifth edition. 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