Category archives: 2019
Sandra Suubi
Sandra Suubi is an award winning gospel artiste with a voice so powerful it will open a closed ear, and yet so gentle it melts souls. She is a musical powerhouse with distinctive melodious vocals, a versatile songbird who has experimented with different genres and a live performer with effortless skill. She also holds a …
Sandra Nankoma
Sandra Nankoma vocals cover the musical baselines of jazz and soul ballads with a distinctive identity and air that breaks the codes of the traditional African soul. A graduate of fine arts, the author, composer, and performer, made her stage debut at Bayimba Festival before sharing stage with notable artists such as Skyler Jett, Goefrey …
Sammy Kasule
Sammy Kasule’s hidden intricacies in playing a six-string guitar have earned him enough attention and admiration. It is not every day that you find a bass of more than five strings. Kasule is one of the backbones of Uganda’s music, but has for a long time lived a quiet life in Stockholm, Sweden where he …
Refugees Across Spaces
Opportunities for interaction between refugees and host communities are limited, especially since refugee communities are usually separated from the rest. The project, Refugees Across Spaces seeks to break the isolation of refugees and stimulate local integration mechanisms in their surroundings and societies through culture and its expression. The project is a collaborative project between Regina …
Ras Brown
Muserebende Hytham Ssali
I am a Ugandan Roots folk pop/ world music artist and humanitarian. Ssali Hytham Muserebende a voice to the voiceless children grew up in an adventurous landscape of Bugerere in Uganda’s district of Kayunga on the shores of a mythical River Ssezibwa. Ssali has lived up to his childhood dream of becoming a world musician. …
Moses Rallo
Moses Rallo, a spirit of Karahunji XVI, of the 9th legion. A sexless mahavator living around the Bahai Temple where he is usually fascinated by drums, fancy cymbals and cosmic sounds. He will be presenting his RED EARTH FRAGMENTS at this year’s festival.
Leo Mkanyia
Swahili Blues Explosion Swahili Blues Explosion are an East African group dedicated to taking the coastal sound of Swahili blues to new heights, thru the combination of pan-African influences and western jazz-funk. Led by Tanzanian guitar maestro Leo Mkanyia and Ugandan saxophone prodigy Caesar Kajura, this is an East African band set to take the …
