From Monday, March 11, Audio Girl Africa will kick off its flagship songwriting and recording bootcamp tagged: ‘ProducHER Series’ in Lagos. It will run till March 15, 2024.
This is sequel to the 5-day bootcamp that took place in March 2023, organised in partnership with Mavin Global.
According to the founder of Audio Girl Africa, Febe Adedamola, the recording and writing bootcamp series aims to foster collaboration amongst female creatives across the music industry, affording them the opportunity to create a music project together (single/EP), with each session showcasing the contribution of the selected female creatives working behind the scenes.
The ProducHER series has been facilitated through the generous support of Warner Music Group and Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund’s SJF Repertoire.
Commenting, Febe Adedamola said: “The bootcamp aims to bring together female recording artistes, songwriters, producers, mixing engineers, music executives, and industry professionals. Together, they will collaborate in a supportive environment to create and showcase their work within the music industry.
“This ProducHER series project is four years in the making and with the grant from the Warner Music Group/Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund’s SJF Repertoire, our organisation is able to launch an initiative like this, and continue in our mission to increase the involvement of young African women in the music creation, production and engineering space by providing them with audio technology and music business training opportunities and resources. We are beyond grateful for the support.”
Also speaking, Temilade Adeniji, Managing Director, Warner Music Africa, stated: “In awarding Audio Girl Africa with a grant under the Repertoire Fund supported by the WMG BFF Social Justice Fund, Warner Music Africa furthers our commitment to championing participation of young African women in audio technology and the music ecosystem at large. We are extremely proud to stand behind an organization with such a clear vision and one that plays a huge role in closing the gender gap in this segment of the industry.”
Also, through the grant, Audio Girl Foundation held her first Live Sound Workshop for the year in Ibadan from February 21-23. Fifteen young women were trained on live sound basic skills which include setting up for a live music set, troubleshooting basic live sound issues, basic live sound mixing and recording.
In the final week of March, Audio Girl Africa Foundation will wrap up her Q1 projects with a Soirée: an evening of celebration, networking, games, fun, conversations, bonding and recreation for women in audio technology and music business.