Africa Oyé

The country's biggest celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture has announced its festival dates for this summer in Liverpool.

Following record breaking attendances last year, Africa Oyé will take over Sefton Park once again for two packed days of live music, dance, workshops, DJ stages, food stalls, traders and more.

The much-loved event will this year take place on 22nd and 23rd June 2024 with the festival running from 12:30pm to 9:30pm both days.

Beginning over three decades ago in 1992 as a series of shows in the city centre, the Africa Oyé Festival has evolved into one of Liverpool's most beloved annual events, attracting artists and attendees from across the world.

The Oyé Active Zone on site will once again be hosted by Liverpool's world dance charity Movema, and audiences can expect the usual array of multi-arts workshops across the whole weekend, for all ages and abilities. The increasingly-popular DJ stages Trenchtown and Freetown are also confirmed to return with a line-up of local selectors and MCs to be announced later in the spring.

The first of the main stage artists will be revealed next month and young local artists who applied to play the festival will soon find out whether they made it onto this year's Oyé Introduces programme, which sees up-and-coming North West talent showcased on the line-up alongside the international heavyweights.

Disabled Facilities: Oyé's ethos of being 'free and open to all' also means that the popular Access Tent, on-stage British Sign Language translators and the Accessible Viewing Platform will all return for this yea