"A Country Transformed by Culture.
Bringing us Together, Happier, Healthier.
To Excite, Inspire, Delight.
To Enrich Our Lives.”
Wormfood! London exists to bring positive experiences to audiences across the city and the rest of the UK. Putting on vibrant live music nights with second-to-none line ups, we want to advocate our right to have fun when the working day is over. From African music to dance music, Wormfood! London celebrates life in the form of music that never disappoints and always leaves audiences yearning for more.
Front Room Songs
From humble beginnings hosting live music in a living room, Front Room Songs has built a reputation for an eye for emerging talent, and first-rate programming and event management for clients in London and beyond.
We provide full programming and event management for London Bridge City Summer By The River, London’s largest free outdoor festival, which takes place at The Scoop, More London, from June to September.
We’ve worked with Hackney underground music promoter Woodburner, festival heavyweights Global Local, programmed music nights at London’s coolest new food and drink venue, Flat Iron Square in London Bridge, and for Californian craft brewery Lagunitas. For the last five years, we’ve programmed a stage at Wilderness Festival, and been a part of the core team for award-winning independent festival, Fire in the Mountain.”
Fire in the Mountain
Fire in the Mountain is an award winning folk and roots festival held in the mountains of Mid Wales. We support a wide range of emerging and up and coming folk bands from across the British Isles, and regularly produce shows and tours across the UK.
Movimientos is the most active Latin American events organisation in the UK. We are a live music events programmer, promoter, artist agency and record label and we have broad depth of experience working with a high profile network of venues, festivals and partners in the UK and Europe.
Movimientos is a not-for-profit organisation that is dedicated to bringing you the best and newest Latin American live music and reinvigorating the Latin music scene in the UK. We strive to present a programme of events from club-nights to live concerts with a consistent and passionate focus on quality and originality.
We aim to broaden perceptions of Latin music beyond mainstream genres by providing a platform for artists who are bringing brand new fusions to the stage; including artists with African, Andean, Caribbean and other global influences, from Folklore, to Latin Jazz, Salsa and Samba, to Cumbia, Hip Hop, Dancehall, Dub & Reggaeton as well as more electronic and experimental sounds.
Promoting the rich and diverse culture of the Arab world in the UK
MARSM is a London-based concert producer and organiser for alternative and underground Arabic music events in the UK.
Translated as “easel’ in English, Marsm serves as a dynamic cultural platform that supports outstanding Arab and North-African talent and contributes to their exposure in the UK. Since its founding, MARSM has dedicated itself to promoting the rich and diverse arts and culture of the Arab-speaking world. From hosting some of the biggest names in the region to emboldening the burgeoning underground music scenes, Marsm strives to support the exceptional creativity and talent of regional artists.
MARSM’s long-standing partnerships and networks with artists, venues, agents, festivals and cultural organisations, has enabled the company to provide a platform for a host of extraordinary talent including Marcel Khalife, Yasmine Hamdan, Cairokee, Mashrou’ Leila, DAM, Kamilya Jubran, Autostrad, Lena Chamamyan, 47Soul, Souad Massi and Emel Mathlouthi – to name but a few.
Nutkhut
Nutkhut’s mission is to bring to life awe-inspiring stories of the British South-Asian experience, through joyous and playful world-class performances and installations.
A London-based performing arts company led by co-Artistic Directors Ajay Chhabra and Simmy Gupta, Nutkhut has been working extensively around the UK and abroad since 2003. Nutkhut produces high quality cross-disciplinary work for site-specific contexts, with a particular focus on creating commissioned work for the outdoor sector and tours regularly to festivals, melas and special events.
Nutkhut productions encompass live performance, dance, installation, music, circus, film and digital design.
Bobby Friction (BBC Asian Network)
Bobby Friction is world renowned for his specialist knowledge of British Asian Music & South Asian music from the Indian / Pakistani Sub-continent. As a DJ for nearly the last 20 years he’s preached the Desi Music gospel across the continents as well as written about it extensively. He’s also an accomplished & award winning broadcaster & documentary maker for radio & TV specialising in Music, Politics, & Society.
Bobby joined BBC Radio 1 in 2002 co-hosting the Sony Gold award winning show, ‘Bobby Friction & Nihal’, and in 2005 joined the BBC Asian Network presenting the station’s Saturday afternoon ‘Album Chart Show’, before moving to ‘The Mix’, on Sunday afternoons. Bobby won his second Gold Sony award in 2005 for his BBC documentary ‘Vote Friction’, and then in 2006 he started his week nightly ‘Friction’ show on the Asian Network. The show, seen by many worldwide as ‘the definitive’ Asian music show won Bobby his third Sony Gold in 2007. Bobby now presents his own Drivetime show on the Network broadcasting 5 nights per week & covering culture, art, show-biz, film & of course lots of music.
Global Carnivalz Limited (formerly Global Carnival Centre) was founded in 2010 by its Chief Executive, renowned international carnival consultant, Pax Nindi FRSA who has been involved with carnival artists, organisations and events for over 20 years. Global Carnivalz aims to assist and support the carnival sector as well as provide services relating to the artform.
We deliver our services working and in consultation with artists and organisations around the world. We have Global Ambassadors from over 12 countries who keep the site informed of global carnivasl and arts activities.
Whilst our network and partnerships are growing we are still keen to get contributions from around the world especial contributors who are keen to share their Carnival news, images and films.
The site is aimed at our partners, carnival artists, organisations, educational institutions, cultural establishments and anyone interested in the artform and events.
Even though this is not a funded website, we will continue to update information on Jobs, Funding and agency work as a way to support and invest in the Carnival sector.
Global Carnivalz has an extensive collection of international carnival videos, photos and papers available from this site. Please use this space to let us know what you cant find or would like to see on this site
Continental Drifts has been at the cutting edge of music for two decades.
We are musical pioneers and instrumental in the creation of musical trends – Electro Swing, Gypsy Remix, Vintage Remix and Brass Band Remix. In 2011, we launched our own London Remixed Festival.
We programme music for all sorts of organisations from major festivals like Glastonbury Festival, to community events like Ealing Jazz Festival, to private functions and corporate events. We were the first contemporary music festival organisation to receive government grants and have even been mentioned in parliament.