Milege World Music Festival

Milege World Music Festival
Status	Active
Genre	World Music, Folk music
Frequency	Annually
Venue	Botanical Gardens Entebbe
Location(s)	Botanical Gardens, Entebbe
Coordinates	0°03′43″N 32°28′45″E / 0.06201089999999999°N 32.47927440000001°E / 0.06201089999999999; 32.47927440000001Coordinates: 0°03′43″N 32°28′45″E / 0.06201089999999999°N 32.47927440000001°E / 0.06201089999999999; 32.47927440000001
Country	Uganda
Years active	6
Founder	Francis Manana Birabi
Previous event	25-27 November 2016
Next event	24-26 November 2017
Participants	Various
Attendance	10,000
Capacity	Unlimited
Activity	Live music, Camping, Games, Zoo visits, Nature walks, boat rides
Organised by	Milege Band, Milege Acoustic Project
Member	Repainting Uganda (NGO), Milege Acoustic Project
Sponsor	Various
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Milege World Music Festival
Come let's have fun in the wild

The Milege World Music Festival or just Milege Festival is an annual music festival, happening every November, organized by Milege band. The festival is a celebration of world music, games, cultural dances, stories, poems, and so on. Art pieces from the Repainting Uganda project are also displayed and sold during the festival. The festival invites many different world music stars from across Africa and sometimes from Asia, Europe, and America. The Milege World Music Festival of 2014 saw Japanese world star and world's first female nyatiti player Anyango perform.

Milege started the festival in 2010 in Jinja but has since 2014 relocated it to the Botanical Gardens in Entebbe.

The festival is normally organized by Milege band members, members of the Milege Acoustic Project and well wishers. Preparation for the festival starts as early as January.

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