Tuesday, 8 April 2014

2014 Lagos Black Heritage Festival focuses on indigenous music





Having successfully hosted previous annual festival, Lagos Black Heritage Festival (LBHF), the state commissioner for Tourism and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Disun Holloway has said this year’s event that is holding from April 14 to 21, 2014 at Freedom Park, Lagos would focus on indigenous music.
The Commissioner also highlighted other activities lined up for the event such as carnival, night of poets and Vision of the Child painting competition, drama, ancestral parade, water regatta, children’s carnival, among others.
Furthermore, he stressed that the festival will help upcoming musicians explore new trends music-wise.
In his words: “Much is happening in the musical field, but there is a domination of Euro-American pop forms, which near completely stifles the exploration of indigenous musical resources both in direct performance for audiences, and in their application to other disciplines, most notably in theatre and cinema/video. Regarding the latter, when one considers what passes for incidental or ‘mood’ music in much of the output of the ever-expanding African film industry; it becomes a classic case of a visual assault compounded by aural aggravation! A reverse track may yet be brought about by exposing film and video directors to possibilities from neglected musical modes within their own cultural environment.”

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