Programme
Timings for the following stages are available below. (All timings are subject to change.)
Rise: London United Against Racism stage
| 12.00pm |
Beardyman |
| 12.30pm |
Natty |
| 1.10pm |
The Holloways |
| 2.00pm |
St. Etienne |
| 3.10pm |
Jamelia |
| 4.20pm |
The Noisettes |
| 5.15pm |
Kelis |
| 6.30pm |
K'naan |
| 7.40pm |
Skatalites |
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African Village
| 12:00pm |
Drum Call (African Pioneers) |
| 12.10pm |
Welcome! Lee Jasper, Mayor’s Director for Equalities and Policing |
| 12:20pm |
Lolou (Senegal) |
| 1:05pm |
The Zawose Family |
| 1:40pm |
Osvaldo Chacon (Afro Cuban) |
| 2:25pm |
King Masco (Sierra Leone) |
| 3.05pm | Tuface (Nigeria) |
| 3:40pm |
Speeches |
| 3:50pm |
Dorothy Masuku |
| 4:40pm |
Osibisa (Ghana) |
| 5:45pm | Frankie Paul (Jamaica) |
| 6:15pm | Harare (Zimbabwe) |
| 7.00pm |
Close |
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Big Cuba Fiesta and El Barrio Latino
| 1.00pm | Club Clandestino DJs |
| 1.15pm | Paseo Malanga |
| 1.30pm | Cuban dance workshop |
| 1.55pm | Peruvian roots percussion |
| 2.40pm | Club Clandestino DJs |
| 3.00pm | Palmeras Kannibales |
| 3.50pm | Cuban dance workshop |
| 4.15pm | Movimientos |
| 4.45pm | Havana Connection |
| 5.10pm | Movimientos |
| 5.45pm | Join the Carnival procession! Celebrate Latin American Unity! |
| 6.05pm | Raíces Cubanas |
| 7.00pm | Movimientos/Club Clandestino DJs |
| 7.30pm | Close |
Children's carnival workshop throughout the day culminating in a carnival precession.
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Crescent stage
| 1.00pm | Abbda |
| 1.45pm | Bellydance |
| 2.05pm | Koma Sersi |
| 2.50pm | Bellydance Superstars |
| 3.10pm | DJ |
| 3.25pm | TBC |
| 4.15pm | DJ |
| 4.30pm | Abdullah Chadeh |
| 5.20pm | U-cef |
| 6.10pm | Mecca2medina |
| 6.45pm | Dam |
| 7.30pm | Close |
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Mela stage
Comperes Jay Kumar and Asha / DJ Meena
| 1:30pm | Gurbaksh Matharu on Tar Shehnai & Navinderpal Singh on Tabla |
| 2:20pm | SOAS presents Kalaimamani Nandini |
| 3:00pm | Aneesa Chaudhry |
| 4.00pm | Angel Dancers |
| 4:10pm | Avipaul |
| 5:00pm | Dhol Academy |
| 5:00pm | Shiva Soundsystem |
| 5:30pm | Nathan 'Flutebox' Lee Live featuring Hanif Khan (tabla) & Wandan (human beatbox) |
| 6:15pm | Kalakaar |
| 7:00pm | Close |
from 5pm Maharajahs
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London Underground stage
| 12.00pm | Sound Connections presents youth music |
| 1.00pm | Bigga Fish |
| 2.00pm | CD-R |
| 3.00pm | CD-R |
| 4.00pm | Bigga Fish |
| 5.00pm | B.R.E.I.S. and live band |
| 6.00pm | Vula and live band |
| 7.00pm | Ty presents best of UK hip hop |
| 8.00pm | Close |
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Union City DJ Bus
Trojan Sound System presents
| 12.00pm | JC (Trojan Records) |
| 1.00pm | TBC |
| 2.30pm | Cosmo (Wild Rumpus) |
| 3.30pm | Ashley Beedle |
| 5.00pm | Trojan Sound System and special guests |
| 6.30pm | Jazzie B (Soul II Soul) |
| 8.00pm | Close |
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Comedy Tent
Performances between 2.30pm-4.30pm and 5.30pm-7.30pm from:
- Richard Blackwood (compere, 2nd show)
- Bill Bailey [TBC]
- Kojo
- Tony Hendriks
- Quincy
- Marlon Davis
- Patrick Monahan
- Shazia Mirza
- Zoe Lyons
- Papa CJ
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Rise Poetry Slammers
Performing in the Comedy Tent from 12pm-1.30pm, and on other stages during intervals throughout the day.
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