For fifty years, Eden Court has heard the sounds of audiences gathered for theatre, music, film and connection, but there were other sounds in other places, erupting across the globe.

New rhythms travelled through cities and over oceans. Highlife surged through Ghana and Nigeria. Afrobeat electrified Lagos. Salsa exploded in New York from its Puerto-Rican and Cuban communities. Rai shook Algeria. Afrodisco lit the hotels and nightclubs of pre civil-war Mogadishu. Cumbia reverberated in Colombia. Soukous travelled from Kinshasa. Dub, jazz and electronic music crossed borders and remade each other.

These were not isolated sounds. They were signals - bright points of light appearing across the map, connected by migration, memory, resistance, joy, struggle and movement. Sounds that crossed borders even where the people who made them could not.

On August 29th Karawane & the African Caribbean Asian and Mixed Heritage Association (ACAMHA) invite you to come together and cut loose to the sound the world made these last 50 years; music brought closer still through the people and communities who now call the Highlands home.