A Cultural Celebration of Fela Anikulapo Kuti Oct 10-16th in Lagos, Nigeria
Africa's premier mobile music download service Spinlet has announced sponsorship of the 13th annual Felabration October 10-16th, 2011 at The Afrika Shrine and other cultural centers in Lagos, Nigeria. Felabration was created by Yeni Anikulapo Kuti in honor of her father Fela Anikulapo Kuti in 1998 to commemorate the musical icon a year after his passing.
Spinlet is a service dedicated to meeting the needs of music lovers across Africa. In doing so Spinlet has partnered with events such as Felabration throughout Africa to help raise awareness of the rapidly growing entertainment industry. Felabration celebrates one of Africa's most iconic performers and showcases today's hottest acts, including MI, Ice Prince, Jesse Jagz, Wizkid, Banky W, Skales and more.
Spinlet is a social mobile music platform that allows fans to download their favorite music on their mobile phones. Spinlet consumers can remotely store, manage and listen to music from anywhere. Via the Spinlet Music portal, users can also create playlists, stream and seamlessly synch music tracks across devices as well as share their favorite titles using social-networking sites, like Facebook. Spinlet is a company dedicated to meeting the needs of music lovers and artists in Africa. The company will become the premier digital distribution service to enter the African market and is focused on promoting music as the catalyst for positive social engineering.
Since it began 13 years ago, Felabration has continued to grow and expand in different ways to help achieve its main goals, to support the African entertainment industry, encourage people to "Buy Africa", and preserve the legacy of Fela Kuti. Felabration includes music, dance, and carnival that promote Africa's diverse cultures. This year's theme was drawn from Fela's prophetic song "Buy Africa" in an effort to propel it's message to the next generation of Africa and the rest of the world.
Spinlet will sponsor the entire week-long event beginning with a symposium called "The Fela Debates" on the first day and continues with a six-day music concert series featuring contemporary music, afro beat, and urban music. To broaden their reach the music and dance festival has added an educational sector teaching and informing Nigerian children the history of Africa as a continent. The first primary school session will be called "If I Were President For a Day."
Tickets for Felabration are free. You can find out more info at www.felabration.net. To learn more about Spinlet go to www.spinlet.com or like Spinlet on Facebook at facebook.com/myspinlet.
