Joyful Noise www.joyfulnoise.co.uk 07956 227 012 / 0207 328 9613

Joyful Noise's annual London African Music Festival was established in 2003 by Biyi Adepegba (artistic director) and Barbara Pukwana (project director) to present artists that usually never programmed by some festivals. Since then the likes of King Sunny Ade (Nigeria), Koffi Olomide (Congo), Oliver Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe), Cheikh Lô (Senegal), MC Solaar (France), Rachid Taha (Algeria), Kanda Bongo Man (Democratic Republic of Congo), Bonga (Angola), Toumani Diabate (Mali), Koffi Olomide, Mad Professor (UK), Etienne Mbappe (Cameroon/France),  Tiken Jah Fakoly (Ivory Coast), Dobet Gnahore (Ivory Coast) Cheick Tidiane Seck (Mali), Omar Sosa (Cuba) Boubacar Traore (Mali), Yvonne Chaka Chaka (South Africa), Teofilo Chantre (Cape Verde),  Africando (Senegal), Thomas Mapfumo (Zimbabwe), Souad Massi (Algeria) to name a few had appeared in the festival. 

Joyful Noise productions was established in January 1990. It produces tours around the the UK and the world. Joyful Noise also produces the annual African Composer's series and the Unreported Music Tours. 

Joyful Noise is funded by Arts Council England

Website: www.joyfulnoise.co.uk

Email: joyfulnoise@talk21.com

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