Sauti za Busara Music Festival

All Roads Lead to Zanzibar for East Africa’s Finest Music Festival

Sauti za Busara festival brings people Fri 11 – Sun 13 February

This year’s festival shines a spotlight on live music from East and Southern Africa, including young and upcoming talents and a special priority on women artists from Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia and Congo Brazzaville

Sampa The Great Msaki releases; Siti & The Band Sholo Mwamba singeli Sjava Vitali Maembe Suzan Kerunen Fanie Fayar Ben Pol Wamwiduka Band Zan Ubuntu

Yusuf Mahmoud, the Festival Director, says this year’s theme is ‘Paza Sauti: Amplifying Women’s Voices’. We don’t select artists only because they are women, he says, creative women and increase their visibility on stage, in promotions and behind the scenes.”

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Sauti za Busara is one of the few African festivals that managed to continue annually with live editions in 2020, 2021 and 2022, albeit with more health and safety procedures, whilst maintaining exemplary programming, technical and production standards. Other festivals’ responses to the pandemic were to transform their programmes into distant digital experiences, or even disappear.

Karibuni sana, and welcome to the friendliest festival on the p lanet!