City 105.1 FM Lifestyle Station is mobilising over 50 artistes and comedians for its mega jam musical concert at the Ikeja City Mall, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, on Thursday as part its annual Independence celebration tagged: ‘Salute to the Flag.”
At a news conference at the Mall, Gbemileke Oyinsan, Head of Programme, City 105.1 FM stated the mall would host the musical concert from 11 am to 5 pm on Independence Day with several artistes expected.
“The concert at Ikeja City Mall has been on for two years and it started out of a need to do more and get a lot of crowd to be in tune with the brand (CITY FM). This year’s edition will be the third one and will hold at the car park section for the first time. Although previous editions have been inside the mall, the need for space had encouraged an outdoor scenario for this year’s celebration.
“The event will parade upcoming artiste performances, comedy, treasure hunt, dance competitions and other fun activities,” he stated.
Oyisan added that on Friday, 2 October, there would be In-Studio Concert from 11 am till the end of the day, saying that the “in-studio concert is one like no other. The day is entirely dedicated to artiste performances LIVE on air for the whole day. Last year’s event witnessed over 50 artistes and it went on for the whole day.
“This year, side attractions will be introduced as fans can come to be with their favourite stars.There will also be an orange carpet where artistes will grant interviews to journalists and media representatives and the venue is the City FM premises,” he stated.
The Ikeja City Mall and the in-studio concert will host artistes and comedians, in the likes Reekadobanks, Solidstar, Chopstix, Skales, Falz, Lynxxx, KP Cypress, S3xy Steel, Ycee, Kola Soul, Yung L, Endia, JJC, Korede Bello, Aje Baba Nedu, Blink, Tekno, AY, Akpororo, Buchi Omo, Baba Ali Baba, Pencil, MC Prince, Teju Babyface, Funny Bone and MC Mayor.
As stated by Oyisan, this year's event would run for a period of one week (September 28th-October 3rd) with carefully mapped out programmes.
Other programmes for the celebration are: a new CSR innovation, which will be the “Paint Your City” day, in which the Area ‘G’ Police Command was selected for this purpose; novelty football match, House Party on Saturday.