African and Caribbean Festivals

Created in Jannuary 2001, the "festival au désert" is held every year in Essakane, two hours from Timbouctou in Mali. This Festival seeks its origin in the big traditional Touareg festivities, as Takoubelt in Kidal and Temakannit in Tombouctou, which represented for long time a place for decision making and exchange of information among the different communities. At the beginning, there were songs and touareg dances, poetries, camel rides, games, etc. Today, the Festival is opened to the external world and welcomes artists from other Malian regions, other African countries, but also from Europe and from the whole world.

The Official Website of World Creole Music Festival.

Festival "La Mar de Musicas" CARTAGENA (Spain)

The World Creole Music Festival is born in 1997 and takes place around the end of October every year in Festival City, Pottersville, a short walk from the centre of Roseau, Dominica.

International festival Nuits d'Afrique de Montréal, the best of worl music and great shows all year long.

The Africa Festival has been taking place since 18 years and it has become Europe’s biggest festival for African music and culture. In 2005, more than 120.000 people came to Wuerzburg’s Mainwiesen to witness the cultural wealth of Africa and to participate in Africa’s zest for life.

The annual emancipation festival in Trinidad and Tobago, which commemorates the end of chattel slavery on August 1, 1838, has been described as a monumental pan-African festival . . . a true celebration of Africa outside of Africa . . . come to this multi-dimensional commemoration and find an inspirational experience beyond your imagination.

The African Music Festival was created and founded by the Gambian music producer Oko Drammeh in 1983 and has featured all the best and most famous African musicians rising to fame. Best known as Africa day, the faithful and the fans come to Delft and spend glorious days in the beautiful coffee shops of Holland and the teahouses, and magnificent nights of music, food and drinks.

The best in international music converges upon Chicago when the city hosts the annual multi-venue World Music Festival: Chicago. Organized by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the week-long festival showcases both traditional and contemporary music from many of the world's diverse cultures. Festival events include a mix of free and ticketed concerts, live radio broadcasts and educational workshops presented in museums, parks, cultural centers, plazas, theaters, bookstores, clubs and other venues throughout Chicago.

African events in The Netherlands

The WOMAD Organisation, founded by Peter Gabriel, organises festivals around the world and releases CDs through it's own Select label

African Music superstars join forces to roll back Malaria

The biggest exhibition of contemporary African art ever held in Europe. It includes work by over seventy artists from Algeria to Zimbabwe, as well as African artists now living in Europe and North America.