Diaspora London Music Village 2008

The dates for the 24th annual Diaspora London Music Village Festival have been announced, and the official lineup for this popular event will be released on June 23, so we’ll update you in this space.

The 2008 dates for this free festival in Hyde Park are Saturday July 12 and Sunday July 13, running from 1pm to 9pm each day. There will be 20 (as yet unnamed) acts over the two days, participating in music, dance, and spoken word performances. The acts are all London-based and from the Diaspora community, which basically means ethnic immigrants in any given place, and in this case, London.

Organizers promise the lineup will include African, Latin, Jewish, Asian, Kurdish, East European and Chinese performance styles, which will reflect London’s amazing immigrant community that is both celebrated and controversial at the same time (although not necessarily by the same people).

Again, these events will all be free to enter, and the Hyde Park location puts them so central that there isn’t much excuse to not at least drop by one of the festival days if you’ll be in central London that second weekend in July. You can find more information on the Cultural Co-operation website, including the full lineups of the acts scheduled to perform, which will be released on June 23 and also posted here on Londonlogue.