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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