Fri 11 Jun – Sun 11 Jul // All events – FREE

25 days & nights of live MUSIC / DJs / ART / FILMS / FOOD and … WORLD CUP FOOTBALL.
All games shown on our giant 15 x 12ft screen.

Russ Jones aka the Hackney Globe Trotter and Rich Mix are teaming up to present the Afro Cup Festival, a month long festival to tie in with the football World Cup in South Africa.

RICH MIX
35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA

Press Blurb:

2010 sees the first ever major sporting event in Africa and also the 50th year of independence for 17 African nations. To celebrate, this Afro Cup Festival will be hosting over 25 days and nights of entertainment with an African theme and all games will be screened live on a massive 15 x 10ft screen. The Afro Cup Festival features 18 nights of live African music from the best of London’s afrocentric bands and each night will be co-hosted by the cream of the crop of African promoters and DJs. On top of this there will be films, an art exhibition, DJ nights, album launches, African food and a street art exhibition profiling the work of emerging artists. As soon as the final match finishes each day, the party will start.

Rich Mix will be transformed from the inside out into an African football bar-cum-shack, with a capacity of 500 per night. From the first kick on Fri 11 June until the final whistle on Sun 11 July, Rich Mix will screen all the big matches.

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11-Jun The Hackney Empire plus A.J. Holmes & Vamanos of Secousse Sound System

12-Jun HGT with Zing Zong and DJ Russ Jones

13-Jun DJ Africathy

15-Jun Next Stop Soweto album launch party with DJ Duncan Brooker

16-Jun South Funk Experience CD launch party with DJ John Armstrong and the South African Funk Experience band

17-Jun Sofrito DJ session

18-Jun Headshigh with Monkfish

19-Jun Afri-Kokoa with We Are Benin City

20-Jun Batmacumba with DJ Cliffy and Eri Okan

23-Jun 12 Tone with United Vibrations

24-Jun Tigerlilly films screenings including Dolce Vita Africana

25-Jun Lake of Stars with Afrika Boy

26-Jun Hotplate Sessions with Kasia Masai

27-Jun Afrogroov presents Ntoumos, Muntu Valdo and DJ Eric Soul

28-Jun Chillie Fried with DJ Jamie Renton Al Andolous

29-Jun Wormfood Presents African Rootmaster: Afrik Bawantu + Bobby Gandolf

2-Jul Afrovibrations. DJ Kochi with London Afrobeat Collective and Dele Sosimi

3-Jul Yaaba Funk

6-Jul Kazum! Presents Krar Collective – Ethiopian Sessions

7-Jul Bucky Leo Quintet

10-Jul HGT with Usifu Jalloh and Maambena’ & DJ Russ Jones

11-Jul HGT with Soothsayers & DJ Russ Jones