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Music of Friday, 24 June 2011

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Paulina Oduro, Racquel, Yaa Pono and others for BTM Festival

Bless The Mic Arts and Music Festival, a cross-genre music showcase that fuses classic highlife and live acoustic performances with the very best of underground and mainstream hiphop, hiplife, soul and jazz music is set to thrill audiences as it returns with a star studded line-up on July 2. Looking at the list of performers confirmed for the 2nd July concert, one can easily realise that the show looks to defy the barriers of age and genre preferences of accra’s music lovers.

The Dzesi all-female band and the legendary highlife songstress, Pailina Oduro are expected to thrill lovers of undiluted highlife music; whiles the likes of Yaa Pono, C-Real and EL will definitely get younger music fans gyrating to their up tempo hiphop sounds and lyrics heavy on metarphors. Song birds, Yasmine Helwani and Racquel should calm down the atmosphere with soothing rmusic from their repertoire of R&B and Soulful ballads. On the reggae side of things, Commander Messiah and Stonebwoy Burnington are sure to turn up the groove a notch with their up tempo and truly entertaining Reggae/dancehall performances. Also on the bill are Combolo, Mutombo and many others.

Apart from the music, there will be food, drinks, art and craft Vendors available as well as fitness training sessions and capoiera displays during the funfair. Tickets will be sold very soon to get your ticket delivered to you call 0302 914 559 or 0244733144 tickets will also be sold @ Koala (Osu) Alerchino ice cream (Osu),Silver bird lifestyle (Accra Mall) store for ticket reservation and order online at www.ticketghana.com.