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Black Routes

Tour the best of African and Caribbean music

Black Routes will tour the best of African and Caribbean music. The network is a partnership between five organisations – Africa Oyé (based in Liverpool), Centre for Music & Arts Technology – CMAT (Birmingham), Joyful Noise (London), Punch (Birmingham) and Serious (London). The organisations have been selected to bring a diversity of skills, output, scale, location and experience to the network.

Each organisation will tour two projects per year to a range of venues throughout the country and deliver an associated education or participation programme. Black Routes has a dynamic remit to work in partnership to develop the profile of the sector, share good practice, create and facilitate opportunities for promoter, producer
and artist development and build audiences for African and Caribbean music.
Ammo Talwar, Chair of Black Routes said:

“Black music from the Diaspora has always had a huge impact on the UK’s national touring circuit – from the heydays of Steel Pulse working alongside “ Rock against Racism” to the new hybrid genres of UK Grime and Angolan Kudoro. Its impact on the human soul reaches far beyond import and export. We want to innovate, challenge and inspire venues, programmers and festivals to produce, promote and programme the richness that black music brings to all”

For more information visit the  Black Routes website.