Nii Ofori Tackie aka DJ Alordia
Organizers of the annual Ghana DJ Awards, Mercury Republic Events, is set to organize a sensitization workshop for Ghanaian DJs and stakeholders in the music industry.
The workshop is in line with the vision of Ghana DJ Awards’ scheme to work to ensure that DJs in the country acquire basic skills in their chosen field to enable them to meet the challenges ahead of them.
It will provide participants with insight and knowledge about how music is created, the required skill set for Ghanaian DJs to impact new trends beyond the nation and the African continent as a whole.
Participants at the workshop will witness an exhibition of disc jockeying equipment and software from some bestsellers which will enable them to perform better.
The DJ workshop will introduce participants to working with sounds, learning to “think like a DJ”, selecting music, mashing up music and genres, beat matching, BPMs and EQing, and a general educative understanding of sound.
The Ghana DJ Awards workshop, scheduled for November 20, would precede the main Ghana DJ Awards show which would take place the following day, November 21.
The organizers of the event have promised that tomorrow’s event will bring together the best of Ghana and international DJs to celebrate the event with music fans.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mercury Republic, Merqury Quaye, disclosed that a number of measures had been put in place to make this year’s awards ceremony unique.
The event is expected to be attended by Ghana’s top musicians, stakeholders in the creative arts industry, a cross-section of music lovers and the general public.
By George Clifford Owusu