Calling all African music groups or managers!
Is your music 100% live?
Is your music connected to Africa?
Are you interested to perform next February in East Africa?
If you can answer yes, yes, yes - then follow this link to apply now!
Sauti za Busara music festival brings people together in celebration. Every February Stone Town is alive to the sounds of African music. During five days and nights the main stage showcases twenty groups from Tanzania and another twenty from different parts of the Continent and diaspora. 100% live - no playback! Other festival highlights include thecarnival street parade, Busara Xtra fringe activities, professional meetings and workshops.
In past years, over 280 groups have performed, including Jose Chameleone, Samba Mapangala & Orchestra Virunga, Didier Awadi, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba, Thandiswa, Jagwa Music, Ba Cissoko, Nyota Ndogo, Natacha Atlas, Culture Musical Club and more
Immensely popular with East Africans as well as visitors to the region, Sauti za Busara has firmly established itself as an unmissable event on the African cultural calendar and "the friendliest festival on Planet Earth." (Daily News, Tanzania)
Applying is easy
Your group is only able to be considered if we have received a completed application form and materials from you by 31 July 2010.
The selection committee meets at the beginning of August to decide the programme and line up for the next Festival. All applicants will be notified during September.
For Festival performers we usually pay artists fees and local expenses in Zanzibar, including travel, visa, accommodation, food and incidentals. For headline artists from outside the region we may also help you find travel sponsors.
DONORS - Sauti za Busara fulfils many criteria for development funding - in peace building, poverty alleviation, strengthening civil society, creation of employment, skill-sharing and capacity-building, promotion of cultural diversity, freedom of expression and gender balance.
Please email busara@zanlink.com for full proposal and budget.
With great sadness we announce Yussuf A Aley, famously known as Chuchu, after a long battle with leukaemia, recently passed away in hospital in Nairobi. His body was returned to Zanzibar, where hundreds of local people attended his funeral on 5 June.Whilst we miss you dearly, Bwana Chuchu forever you will live in our hearts!
Message from the President
“Sauti za Busara is a very important initiative. It provides a great opportunity for both locals and visitors of different walks of life to meet and exchange ideas and appreciate the uniqueness, the wealth and diversity of the music from our region. In so doing the festival contributes to us building intercultural understanding and friendship”
H.E. Jakaya M Kikwete,
President of the United Republic of Tanzania
African World Cup playlist
The sounds they should be playing on the radio ’til July!
Nas & Damian Marley (USA/Jamaica) – Africa Must Wake Up
Youssou N’dour (Senegal) – I Bring What I Love
Nneka (Nigeria/Germany) – Viva Africa
Konono No 1 (DRC) – Assume Crash Position
Lucky Dube (S Africa) - Remember Me
Pepe Kalle (DRC) – Roger Milla
K’naan (Somalia/Canada) – Wavin’ the Flag
Thandiswa (S Africa) – Ibokwe
Jorge Ben (Brazil) - Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)
Femi Kuti (Nigeria) – You Better Ask Yourself (Bost & Bim remix)
Juma Nature & TMK Wanaume Halisi (Tanzania) – Tatu Bila 3-0
Shakira ft Freshlyground (Colombia/S Africa) – Waka Waka
Black Eyed Peas (USA) – One Tribe
Magic System (Cote d’Ivoire) – On a Espoir
Phuzekhemisi (S Africa) – Izindaba Zakho
J Pre, Wyclef Jean (USA/Haiti) – Ke Nako
Pitbull, TKZee & Dario (S Africa) – Game On
R. Kelly ft Soweto Singers (USA/S Africa) - Sign of A Victory
Refugee All Stars (Sierra Leone) – Rise and Shine
Akon ft Keri Hilson (USA) – Oh Africa
Siphiwo ft Nelson Mandela - Message of Hope
compiled by DJ Yusuf
Busara Promotions
PO Box 3635
Stone Town
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Find us on the airport road, opposite Golf Club.
Tel: +255 24 223 2423
or +255 773 822 294
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