Sat Aug 07 - 12:00pm to 10:00pm

5,000 people celebrating the first, free, open air 'Festival of Yoruba Arts' enjoying the color, sounds and dance of Yoruba's rich culture and tradition. That’s FOYA 2010! Movement, color, sounds and tastes.

Experience traditional Bata drummers, dancers, singers, masquerades, jesters, arts and crafts exhibitions, workshops, presentations, Yoruba cuisine and live performances from across traditional and contemporary Yoruba culture.

There will be live performances from the London Lucumi Choir, (Cuba) London School of Capoeira(Brazil) Ayan and the Oduduwa talking drummers(Nigeria), Juju music from Diya Ojo (London), Afrobeat music from Dele Sosimi and the afro beat vibrations (Lagos/London), Yoruba Jazz from Kevin Haynes (Trinidad) and many more artists, whose music and performance art derive its origins and roots in Yoruba culture and tradition.

Don’t miss the music, dancing, performances, masquerades and much more. Come experience Yoruba Arts and Culture in traditional and contemporary arts forms.

The Yoruba’s

 Known worldwide as naturally friendly and welcoming people, the Yoruba’s love to celebrate and thus music forms an important factor in Yoruba culture. Its influence in early American blues, jazz, rock and roll, hip-hop, rap music, juju, salsa, afro beat, capoeira many other genres of music and performance art is still evident to this day.

 The Yoruba’s, are a large race of people loosely linked around the world by geography, language, history and religion. They are one of the largest cultural groups in Africa and the largest group of slaves transported from Africa during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Yoruba language is the third most spoken native African language. The Yoruba’s are the third largest ethnic minority group in London.

The unique, highly intellectual and indelible history of the culture and tradition of the Yoruba’s has undergone phenomenal international interest in recent years and has been accorded the recognition and respect it rightfully deserves.

Join us as we celebrate for the first time in England the ‘Spirit of Yoruba’. FOYA 2010…

Free Entry