Soweto Kinch, & Mad Professor for Wales' Kaya Festival

plus Celloman, Pauline Black, Thabani, Howard Marks, & more

By Scott Williams | Published: Fri 1st Feb 2013

Kaya Festival 2012 - Mad Professor
Photo credit: Phil Bull

Kaya Festival 2012

Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd June 2012
The Vaynol Estate, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, LL56 4JN, Wales MAP
adult weekend £75 (with camping), day tickets £45
Daily capacity: 5,000

Soweto Kinch, and Mad Professor, lead the latest acts confirmed for the second Kaya Festival held in the grounds of the Vaynol Estate near Bangor, North Wales over the Bank holiday weekend, on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th May 2013.

Mad Professor
The line-up for 'International Staurday' is Soweto Kinch, Celloman, Thabani, Batch Gueye & The Band, Drymbago, The Venus Bushfires, Domingo Candelario, Batala Bangor, and Oi Brasil!.

On Skaya 'Dub' Sunday Mad Professor takes to the decks to headline, with support from Pauline Black, Joe Driscoll & Seckou Kouyate, Howard Marks, Trojan Records, Legend, Talisman, Captain Accident, and Oi Brasil!.

In addition to the African, Jamaican, Caribbean and world musical flavours, Kaya will feature a number of activities, crafts and entertainment to get involved with; including free Tai Chi workshops in the healing fields, workshops in African drumming, Brazilian Caporeira dance and painting, a climbing tower, recycled art installation and a solar cinema.

Stages will host live music, cabaret, spoken word, acoustic live music, comedy, and more.

Weekend campers will be able to arrive on Friday 24th May and there will be entertainment featuring 'The Best Of Wales' – local and national Welsh talent in a small venue on site before the festival opens officially on the 25th.

A weekend camping ticket is priced at £60. Concessions and teens (14-17) tickets are priced at £55. There are no age restrictions for those attending the Kaya festival, but anyone under-16 must be accompanied by a responsible adult aged 18 or older. Children (0-14) get free entry but will still need a ticket. A campervan ticket is priced at £30, and a day car park pass is priced at £7.

To buy tickets, click here.


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