DStv, GOtv Subscribers To Enjoy Festivals Pop-up Channel

FUNSHO AROGUNDADE

Don Moen performing at The Experience in 2015

The holiday season is officially here and MultiChoice Africa is getting into the festive spirit with the launch of the Nigerian Festivals pop-up channel which is dedicated to showcasing Nigerian music and worship festivals to DStv and GOtv subscribers from Monday 21 November to Monday 02 January 2017.

Viewers will get a front row view of Nigeria’s hottest music festivals from the comfort of their own homes on DStv channel 198 and GOtv Plus channel 29.

The festival extravaganza will kick off with coverage of The Experience Music and Worship gospel concert from 02 December. Billed as ‘the most awaited gospel music concert in the whole of Africa’, the eleventh edition of The Experience will be yet another grand affair, with some big name ministers due tobring their ministries to the crowd. Viewers will have an opportunity to enjoy the gospel music concert alongside the hundreds of thousands of worshippers expected to attend the concert in Lagos, Nigeria.

Then from 17 December, the channel will cover of the eighth edition of the Akwa Ibom Christmas Concert. In 2014, viewers watched as the Akwa Ibom State choir break the Guinness world record for the largest number of Christmas carol singers in the world with its 25 272 member-choral group!

From 25, 27 – 29December, the pop-up channel will broadcast the 11th anniversary of ‘Africa’s Biggest Street Party’, the Calabar Grand Carnival which takes place on the streets of the Cross River State. Yet again, subscribers will get to enjoy a musical concert featuring top Nigerian artists plus a dazzling parade of colourful costumes, creative dance moves, elaborate floats and imaginative interpretations of this year’s theme Celebration Time.

Then, on 31 December, Lagos will come alive with One Lagos Fiesta also known as Lagos Countdown, when the masses will be ushering in the New Year, with some of Nigeria’s biggest names in music.