ARTIST applications for the MTN Bushfire 2024 Festival are now open. This was announced by the festival’s creative director Jiggs Thorne yesterday.
The 17th edition of the MTN Bushfire international festival of the arts will be held from May 31 to June 2, 2024, at House On Fire.
MTN Bushfire invites live performers of the highest calibre, who share the festival’s mission to celebrate creative expression, while promoting social responsibility and inclusion, to send in their applications via the online application process.
“Artist applications close on October 31. Application links can be found on the MTN Bushfire website artists page at www.bush-fire.com as well as on our MTN Bushfire social media platforms,” said Thorne.
“MTN Bushfire looks for a diversity of musical styles and genres. Rooted in Africa and packaged to the world, MTN Bushfire’s line-up has always embraced the eccentric and unearthed the eclectic, featuring a wholesome mix of Pan-African and international artists from across different genres, who do more than simply entertain but also use their art as a powerful form of creative advocacy,” he added.
The festival’s various stages and platforms host a wide range of performances, including live music, DJs, site and roving performances, dance showcases, art exhibitions and installations, theatre, poetry, story-telling, puppetry, film and much more.
Further opportunities for performances exist in the EU Bushfire Schools Festival, which is held the week preceding the MTN Bushfire festival and supports creative skills and personal growth among students, as well as the family friendly KidZone.
Named ‘Top African festival’by the BBC, hailed by CNN as one of the ‘Seven African music festivals you really have to see’ and winner of the Most Responsible Event Award at the WTM African Responsible Tourism Awards in 2017, MTN Bushfire is much more than a music festival.
“With its #BRINGYOURFIRE clarion call to ignite action for positive social and environmental change, MTN Bushfire is deeply involved in a range of social and arts development initiatives,” said Thorne,
MTN Bushfire sees over 20 000 festivalgoers during the festival weekend, with attendees from over 55 different countries making the journey to the beautiful Malkerns valley of Eswatini for an energising and uplifting weekend that celebrates the music and arts of Africa and beyond.
