Ticket: MOMO Festival × Amapiano NL – BIRD

MOMO Festival x Amapiano NL

We are proud to announce that we will be part of the prestigious MOMO Festival this year in Rotterdam.

We’ll be hosting an Amapiano stage at BIRD, Rotterdam during the festival’s night programming.

||MOMO Festival:
MOMO Festival brings you exciting (new) artists in performance and art, but most of all loads of music! Three days, all dedicated to new encounters. Some more awkward than others. We’ll take you on a road to self-discovery. Your favorite music, art, interesting performances and street art. We dare you to get to know yourself, by doing things you wouldn’t normally do. Discover the beauty of opposites, the unknown.

||Brief History Amapiano:
Amapiano is the term used to describe South Africa’s fastest-growing electronic music movement. Amapiano, which emerged in the Pretoria townships in 2016, is a medley of deep house, jazz, kwaito, and lounge music with distinct synths, airy pads, wide basslines, and percussions from another local subgenre of house known as Bacardi. The name was chosen to reflect the melodic piano keyboards that accompany the fast-paced Gqom beats. It derives from the Zulu plural article “ama” and the English noun “piano.” Initially, Amapiano was thought to be just an underground sound floating around Gauteng townships’ residential DJs’ WhatsApps and house parties. Following key releases by well-known South African artists such as Samthing Soweto, Moonchild Sanelly, and Sho Madjozi, the sound blew up to become an anthemic part of the nation’s house scene

It is clear to anyone who has been keeping an eye on South Africa’s music scene that 2019 was a big year for emerging house genre Amapiano. In the recent 2019 documentary ‘Shaya!’, DJs and fans of the popular house subgenre made it clear that the sound, which morphs elements of South Africa’s already popular house music with new distinct beats and rhythms, is here to stay for the long run and is poised to leave a long-lasting impact on South African culture.

Now in 2022, Amapiano is extending its reach beyond South Africa and topping the charts in countries around the world

||MOMO Night x Amapiano NL:
A night filled with Amapiano sounds from the motherlands and diaspora. We’ve sourced out some of
the best Ama-djs in NL to take you on a journey into the world of Amapiano.

||LINEUP:
AUSTIN-J
RAS SJAMAAN
BADGUYZ
PYRON
DIDI

||TICKET:
€12.00
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||GENERAL INFO:
Time: 23:00 – 04:00
Location: Bird, Rotterdam
Adress: Raampoortstraat 26.

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