Grammy nominated artists to headline Migration Matters Festival 2024

This episode first aired on SheffieldLive radio on 10th May 2024

Migration Matters Festival 2024 returns to Sheffield with bigger headliners from 14th to 22nd June.

Tchiyiwe Chihana spoke to Ellen Beardmore, Marketing and Communications Manager of the festival about the programme, ticketing and themes this year.

This year, the programme boasts of Grammy-nominated husband-and-wife musical duo, Amadou & Mariam of Mali, who performed their Afrobeat hits at Glastonbury last year and previously performed for President Barack Obama.

Ticket sales have opened and available on the Migration Matters Festival website. Local celebrities to look out for include the former poet laureate of Sheffield, hip hop and spoken word artist Otis Mensah. They have joined the line-up of guest curators with their programme, “Longerr Inheritances” which will look at jazz experimentation and what it means to cross genres and artistic expectations as Black artists and artists of colour.

Mali’s Amadou and Mariam will headline Migration Matters Festival 2024