Ayoola Sadare, Founder, Lagos International Jazz Festival and the Director, Inspiro Productions, on Monday said the upcoming 2015 jazz festival was to celebrate the nation’s foremost jazz musicians. Sadare told newsmen in Lagos that the festival would also celebrate musicians in other genre with indigenous flavour.
The legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti
The festival would hold from April 30 to May 2 at the Freedom Park in Lagos. “It is our dream to make Lagos International Jazz Festival not just another entertainment event but one that adds value to both Lagos as a tourist destination.
“We expect the festival to expand so that it can contribute to the state’s gross Domestic product (GDP) and to provide an international platform for our indigenous musicians that play jazz music.
“We want the festival to be one of the leading jazz festivals in Africa in the near future which will in turn make Lagos a global jazz tourism circuit,’’ he said.
Sadare said that they were satisfied with the line-up of artiste billed to play at the three-day festival. He noted that artistes would feature in the different genres like Jazz, Naijazz, Afrojazz, Fuji, Afrobeat, Apala, Highlife and Naija-Hiphop.
He added that five stages will be erected to represents prominent Nigerian music icons of blessed memory namely, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Elder Steve Rhodes, Fatai Rolling Dollar, Osita Osadebe and Bala Milla. Some of the actors that are billed to perform are two time Grammy award winner, Lekan Babalola, U.S.-based muti-instrumentalist, Adeniji popularly known as “Heavy wind”
Others are the Director of SPAN Academy of Jazz and Contemporary Music, Bright Gain; veteran musician and classical clarinetist Tee Mac, Vocal Sensation Diva, Ego and neo-highlife musical icon, Nomoreloss. The ticket for the three day-event is fixed at N1, 000 per day.
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