Ghana’s team in Spain
Representatives of the Ghana government and a group of media men arrived in Madrid, Spain, yesterday for the Vis-a-Vis Festival which has two Ghanaian music groups? Kyekyeku and FRA Bands? on board.
The Vis-a-Vis is a cultural project organised by Spain’s public diplomacy institution, Casa Africa, in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism, Arts & Culture and the collaboration of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), the Spanish Embassy in Accra and the Ghana Embassy in Madrid.
This year’s Vis-a-Vis marks the 10th edition of the cultural cooperation project that aims to generate a better knowledge of African music in Spain and has already been held in nine other African countries.
So far, Vis-a-Vis has visited Senegal on two occasions, Ethiopia, South Africa, Côte d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania and Angola.
Kyekyeku and FRA Bands were adjudged winners out of 64 bands that applied to audition for the Casa Vis-a-Vis Ghana Espana project.
The two groups are expected to promote Ghana as they tour Spain’s most important festival this month.
The band arrived in two weeks ago and have so far performed and toured a couple of festivals and are expected to perform a few more.
The delegation from Ghana called on the Ghana High Commission July 17, 2019, and engaged the office on the turnouts of events, as well as spoke about plans laid out for the festival by Casa Africa.
The Ghana High Commission has been very instrumental in the coordination of the team since they arrived.