Ghana Music Week, UK Cancelled?

Hopes of having BET award winner, Stonebwoy; ‘King of Highlife’, Amakye Dede and the reigning VGMA 2016 Artiste of the Year- EL thrill patrons of Ghanaian music at the Indigo at the O2 in London on Friday, October 21 may not become a reality.

According to reliable information available to www.nydjlive.com, the much anticipated Ghana Music Week-UK will no longer come off on the already publicized date.

Although no official reason has been given for the latest development, our sources disclose events leading to that had been quite glaring from the onset and that included organizational challenges.On Thursday August 25, 2016, Leslie Quaynor, CEO of Fantasy Entertainment at the Media Launch of the Ghana Music Week – UK at Ghana High Commission in London stated;

“After four years of organizing GMW in Ghana, the team moved into achieving another of its key goals of using the platform to market Ghanaian music & Tourism to the world,”

Fantasy Entertainment was partnering Showbiz Africa and the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) to run GMW Festival.

It is unknown which date the event will be held.