Showgear and its organising partners have announced that Lagos will be joining the global celebration of music in the month of June for a third consecutive year under the umbrella of Make Music Lagos (MML).
Make Music Lagos is the Lagos edition of Make Music Day, a festival of free live music hosted in more than 120 countries all over the world to commemorate World Music Day under the guidance of the US-based Make Music Alliance.
The organisers said that since its launch, the Make Music Lagos festival has had two back-to-back editions. The first in 2016 which delivered three concerts with performances by Bez, Cobhams Asuquo, Tosin Martins, Olufunmi, Wura Samba, Johnny Drille, Pita, Wole Oni, Lagos Mainland Choir, etc.
For the 2018 edition, the Make Music Lagos crew is upping the ante with a full slate of events across the month of June. The Mass Appeal, a live performance by a diverse group of instrumentalists and bands of the 2018 MML Theme Song composed by Alternate Sound, comes up on Sunday 17th June at the newly opened JJT (Johnson Jakande Tinubu) Park in Alausa. Learn to Play, a music instruments teaching initiative, runs from the 19th to 21st of June at Lagos State Education District 1, Agege and on the 21st of June in other select locations. While Learn to DJ, a teaching initiative that gives aspiring DJs the opportunity to learn from DJ Jimmy Jatt and other leading DJs, and the Street Studio, a free style music production initiative, will be hosted on World Music Day (June 21) in select locations across the city.
Over 16 concerts will also be hosted on World Music Day (June 21) in various venues across the city of Lagos. And the celebrations will be capped off with a Lagos Shutdown on Sunday the 24th of June at the Muri Okunola Park, Victoria Island with live performances from Lagbaja, Waje and a host of others.
Adeola Akinyemi, Showgear COO and the MML Organizing Team Chair, said, “we are excited to be back for a third edition of Make Music Lagos following the success and the overwhelming show of support from the last two (2) editions. More importantly, we are excited about the endorsement of the festival by the Lagos State Government which is a big seal of approval on the festival.”
For a comprehensive list of performers, venues, events & other MML news/info, please stay connected via Facebook, Instagram & Twitter @MakeMusicLagos, and on the MML website at www.makemusiclagos.org.ng.
And as it is the global practice of Make Music Day, all events are free. Meaning that you do not pay to attend or perform at any of the events. It is open to all without any strings attached. However, all performers and attendees at select events need to preregister.
Make Music Lagos is made possible by the generous support and cash donations of the Organising, Venue, Media, Technical and Sponsoring Partners. Details on how to become a partner are on Make Music Lagos’s website.