The Milege World Music Festival or just Milege Festival is an annual music festival, happening every November, organized by
Milege Afrojazz Band.
The festival is a celebration of world music, games, cultural dances, stories, poems, and so on. Art pieces from the Repainting Uganda project are also displayed and sold during the festival.
The festival invites many different world music stars from across Africa and sometimes from Asia, Europe, and America. The Milege World Music Festival of 2014 saw
Japanese world star and world's first female
nyatiti
The nyatiti is a five to eight-stringed plucked bowl yoke lute from Kenya. It is a classical instrument played by the Luo people of Western Kenya, specifically in the Siaya region south of Kisumu. It is about two to three feet long with a bowl- ...
player
Anyango
Eriko Mukoyama, known as Anyango, is a female nyatiti player.
Biography
* In 1981, Eriko Mukoyama was born in Tokyo.
* In 2001, she boarded a plane for New York City to learn music. But her plane was forced to return to Japan, because the da ...
perform.
Milege started the festival in 2010, moving across Uganda, but has since 2014 relocated it to the Botanical Gardens in
Entebbe
Entebbe is a city in Central Uganda. Located on a Lake Victoria peninsula, approximately southwest of the Ugandan capital city, Kampala. Entebbe was once the seat of government for the Protectorate of Uganda prior to independence, in 1962. The c ...
.
Organizers
The festival is normally organized
by
Milege band members, members of the Milege Acoustic Project, and well-wishers. Preparation for the festival starts as early as January.
List of Milege World Music Festivals
References
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World music festivals
Tourism in Uganda
Music festivals in Uganda