MUSIQUE : Festival Sauti za Busara de Zanzibar, 13-16 Février 2014

Cheikh Lo, chanteur sénégalais en live à Zanzibar.

Final call for artists - 31 July deadline!

Are you an African musician or group? Applications for local and international artists who want to perform at the 11th edition of Sauti za Busara are open until 31st of July. The festival will be held from 13-16 February 2014. The online application form is on our website HERE or a paper version can be collected at our offices in Maisara, opposite Golf Club, in Zanzibar. Over the past ten years we have had more than 250 groups perform, in all musical genres, always 110% live. Note that we receive many applications each year and we take the time to review each application carefully.

Please be patient as we review the applications and we will inform applicants as soon as we can after the selection committee meets in early August. Your application must include the following :

• A completed online or paper form including a short biography (max 1000 words). • One or two recent recordings (CD or DVD) • One or two photographs (JPG or paper).

Please send your recordings, photographs and any other material to our office address below: BUSARA PROMOTIONS PO BOX 3635 STONE TOWN, ZANZIBAR, TANZANIA.

Please note we will not accept applications and application materials after 31 July. Make sure we have received your full application (including hard copies of recordings) by that date. For more information see www.busaramusic.org/callforartists Bauti za Busara is widely recognized as one of the best and most important festivals on the African continent. For the past three years running, it was named one of the Top 25 International Festivals by the acclaimed Songlines Magazine.

The festival is operated on a not-for-profit, charitable basis. Daily tickets for festival cost less than US$2 for Tanzanian Citizens. To help keep it this way, we rely on the generous support of donors, sponsors, and “Friends of Busara.” We have ingenious ways that you or your company/organisation can be seen as part of the festival’s success, including acknowledgements before, during and after the festival both in the main venue and supporting venues, in TV, radio and press, and online on our website and social media platforms. Last year our website alone received more than 2 million hits during January and July.

If you are interested in supporting the festival, please email Cynthia at : 

marketing@busara.or.tz