Date: September 3, 2016
Venue: Distant Relatives Eco-Lodge & Backpackers, Kilifi
Time: 5-11 pm
Entry: KES 100
Out of Town: Kilifi 4X4 After Party, May 1 2016 @ Distant Relatives Eco-Lodge & Backpackers
Date: May 1, 2016
Location: Distant Relatives Eco-Lodge & Backpackers, Kilifi
Time: 4 pm -12 am
Free Entry
New Year’s Eve Party – Electric Jungle Festival, Dec. 31 2015 @ Distant Relatives Backpackers Eco-lodge – Kilifi
Introducing, Kilifi New Year 2016, Kenya’s freshest boutique festival experience. Thirty six hours packed with the dopiest and most exhilarating vibes the continent has to offer.
Date: December 31, 2015
Venue: Distant Relatives Backpackers Eco-lodge, Kilifi
Tickets : KES 6000 – Includes: Free camping for two nights, entrance into the New Year’s Eve party at Distant Relatives on the 31st and Lake of Fire Party on the 1st of January.
About
Kilifi New Year gets bigger and better every year, and this time around we’re very excited to announce that our headliner is chart-conquering Berlin DJ Wankelmut! Ever heard this song?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRAMNWzfjcgWe’re also proud to welcome Toby2shoes, South Africa’s favourite genre mashing funkster, back again to #KilifiNYE2016!
We have also confirmed a full line-up of incredible musical depth drawn from across Africa, Europe and the States, and over the next few weeks we will be introducing you to a troupe of traveling troubadours who will keep the dancefloor rocking throughout this year’s event. We’ll be publishing a full schedule soon!
All this will be taking place in one of East Africa’s most unique and stunning settings. Our build team of artists, sculptors and industrial designers are hard at work putting together a wonderland of electric installations and mind-bending decor. It’s going to be even bigger and better than last year’s event!
The Beach Baobab Stage has been confirmed as the venue for the second night! We have extended the festival into a second day this year, so save some energy for January 1st as the incredible music continues from 4pm. Dance under the stars, swim out in the phosphorescence, jive in the jungle, and witness the hypnotizing beauty of the burn at the Lake of Fire Party!
This is going to be an amazing journey and you’re all invited!
For tickets message FULL NAMES for each attendant to 0718522872 and then await individual payment instructions and confirmation number. ID compulsory on entrance.
More info visit Distant Relatives Eco-lodge & Backpackers website
New Year Warm Up Party W/ Gregg Tendwa, Dec. 26 2015 @ Distant Relatives Backpackers Eco lodge – Kilifi
Date: December 26, 2015
Venue: Distant Relatives Backpackers Eco lodge, Kilifi
Entry: Free
About
Multimedia artist, free thinker, ardent opponent of anything authoritarian, Greg Tendwa’s style is described as mending social reality through music, photography, fashion, food, stories & games.Gregg Tendwa pioneers a sound called ‘Bengatronics’. “It’s that afro-goodness brewed when benga music meets electronics. It’s some comedy when keeping authentic vibe alive. It’s here. It’s a journey through Afro-pop to Nu-Disco, to saving Benga music. It’s a neutral moment. Without borders yaani bila mipaka in Swahili”.
He is the man behind the WIBO Culture movement – an experimental, self-evolving art initiative that envisions an open and connected global community through culture and the creative arts. In music, Tendwa is a DJ, producer and remixer who brings an Afrolectic aesthetic to his works. His choice of music can be described as full of afrogoodness blended with a layer of percussive sounds from the diversity of African instrumentation. His selection often ranges from Afrohouse to Afrofunk, Afropop, Afrojazz, Afrosoul, and Afrobeat, and whatever other experimental music formats that appeal to his style.In 2015, his performances have seen him tour Arusha, Jinja, Kampala, Dar Es Salaam and Amsterdam, in addition to headlining the EABL Shekereka Tafrija promotion launch in Nairobi. He has shared stage with German Dj Duo Schlachthofbronx and the Jimmy Hendrix of Kora, Sekou Kouyate from Guinea at Up Life IV. He is the creative director and resident DJ for Afrofusion Tuesdays @ Havana, Santuri Society Sessions @ The Bus and Rooftop Sundowner @ PAWA 254, Nairobi.
Come meet the Legend FOR FREE on Saturday December 26th at Distant Relatives Eco-Lodge & Backpackers.
Out of Town: Rub a Dub Ft. Live Bands and DJ’s, Dec. 12 2015 @ Distant Relatives – Kilifi
Bad Mambo is back on 12th December, presenting the Coast’s first ever Rub-a-Dub session! Join us for sea, sand, stars and some very heavy bass, dub and reggae vibes.
Featuring: MC Lavosti (Ukoo Flani), DJ Heartical, Kadhalika (Ondi, Ronjey and Wairimu), DJ Lasta (Kaya Kollective), Binti Afrika and DJ SkaFace
Date: December 12, 2015
Venue: Distant Relatives, Kilifi
Entrance Fee: 500/-
Out of Town: Jazz and Rhumba with Mackinlay & Band, Oct. 2 2015 @ Distant Relatives – Kilifi
Date: October 2, 2015
Venue: Distant Relatives, Kilifi
Time: 6 pm – 12 am
Tickets: KES 1,000
In support of the Rotary Club of Kilifi Educational Fund
Out of Town: Barrel Bottom Scrapers are Back one More Time (Feat DJ Nasty), Jul. 17 2015 @ Distant Relatives Ecolodge & Backpackers in Kilifi
Date and Time: Friday 17th July, 6 pm
Venue: Distant Relatives Ecolodge & Backpackers
Admission Costs: FREE
Contact Number, Email and Website: 07 708 851 64 | distantrelativeskilifi@gmail.com| www.kilifibackpackers.com
Event Description
Kicking off with a Dance show of Kivukoni School, Fire Dancing and Hoola Hooping, the Jazz Band Barrel Bottom Scrapers with mackinlay are back one last time to Rock the house as one of their members is leaving Kenya! DJ Nasty will take over to make sure the dancefloor keeps tapping!
Link to Facebook Event
Out of Town: Kenya Nights NYE 2014 Party! Dec. 31 2013 @ Distant Relatives Eco-Lodge & Backpackers – Kilifi
An Intimate NYE for a network of likeminded individuals with the electronic sounds of;
SEAN FRASER | MAX MELESI | VAPOUR | OLIVER NICKLIN | A.O.K | DREAD STEPPA
Date: December 31, 2013
Venue: Distant Relatives Eco-Lodge & Backpackers – Kilifi
Time: 6 pm – 9 am
Tickets: Advance Tickets: Kshs 4,000 & Gate Tickets: Kshs 6,000
The year is over and there’s a very positive vibe in the air that suggests party time is here. There is no time like the present, and with the first proper event of the Festive Season already done and dusted, the fantastic folk at Kenya Nights are ready to pump up the volume once again. They would firstly like to say a personal huge thank you to all that made it for the 4th Anniversary party, a truly epic celebration. As celebrations go, every year has it’s good ones and it’s not so good ones, but at the end of it all, each year must have its ultimate celebration.
On the day we all reflect on the year gone by and anticipate the year to come, there will be a very special event sending vibrations down the Kenyan coastline, a first of its kind.
Kenya Nights is teaming up with the funky folk down at Distant Relatives Eco-Lodge & Backpackers in Kilifi to put together an intimate gathering of party people for the final countdown of 2013. As the first Kenya nights NYE party, expect it to be a very groovy and laid back kind of gig, with quality tunes, in a top quality setting, amongst all the beautiful faces that have come to know and love throughout 2013. Kenya Nights NYE 2014 is here!
There is a no nonsense Music Policy, and the music is answer this time round, with performances from some of Kenya’s top Electronic DJs dropping the top tracks from their sets this year and years gone by. Strictly electronic. An endless assortment of Techno, Minimal, Tribal, Indie, Tech House, and Electro will be pumping through the soundsystem to your heart’s content as those feet stomp all night on the lush sand, in that cooling sea breeze.
Be sure to join us for the last night of the year, and be sure to keep your eyes on this page for more details. Performers to be announced in due course.
There will be a limited run of tickets available for this event as the emphasis will be on quality and not quantity, so be sure to grab your tickets as soon as they go out!
Strictly 21+
Management Reserves The Right To Admission
Spotlight on Kenyan Music: Focus on the Coast, Sept. 20 2013 @ Alliance Francaise Gardens
Date: September 20, 2013
Venue: Alliance Francaise Gardens
Time: from 7 pm
Entrance: Free
Performances by: Luworo Cultural Group from Taveta, Basuba Boni Group from Lamu, Nyerere wa Konde from Kilifi and Chakacha Musician Bado from Mombasa accompanied by Afro Simba Band
Out of Town: Maia Von Lekow Unplugged, Aug. 16 2013 @ Vipingo Ridge – Kilifi
Experience Kenya’s dynamic music scene while enjoying the luxury of Vipingo Ridge*
Date: August 16, 2013
Venue: the ClubHouse Rooftop, Vipingo Ridge
Time: 6.30 pm
Tickets: Kshs 1,500
Reservations: 0733 155 155
Website: http://www.vipingoridge.com/
Performance by Maia Von Lekow
* Vipingo Ridge is one of the most beautiful, scenic and tranquil location on the Kenyan Coast. It houses the five-star private residential golfing destination built to feature in international golfing circuits.