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4worldlovers: Moshito Music Conference and Exhibitions is Africa's premier event for the music industry to engage on the business of music and has positioned itself as a platform for the music industry businesses and organisations, small enterprises, artists, and musicians to engage the business of music. Since 2004 Moshito Music Conference and Exhibition has established itself as Africa's premiere music industry event . With a purpose to broaden the business intelligence of music industry professionals in Africa, strengthen business networks for participants


And inform delegates, strengthen business networks for participants and inform delegates, traders and the public about the multifaceted and dynamic nature of the global music industry.


Inform delegates, traders and the public about the multifaceted and dynamic nature of the global music industry


To create a platform where music meets business and music creates opportunities.

Africa’s premier music market and a destination for the music industry players desiring to engage in the business of music.


Over 90 international delegates and artists have attended Moshito in the last 3 years, comprising of music practioners, musicians and bands, festival promoters, print and radio journalists/presenters, bloggers as well as the International Music Managers Forum.

Moshito 2017 took place on 6-9 September 2017 at Newtown Music Factory (former Bassline) under the theme ‘The Rhythms of the Ancients’.


Following on our tradition of theming each year’s conference, the theme looked and remembered those musicians who have created music that find resonance in ancient rhythms and indigenous sounds that made African music. The faces of Moshito 2017, Dizu Plaatjies of Amampondo and Candy TsamaNdebele, who make us South Africans proud. Moshito 2017, the fourth year under the current Board yielded the following results in


Moshito 2018 took place on 5-8 September 2018 at Newtown Music Factory (former Bassline) under the theme ‘Long Walk to Music: Be the Legacy’. This year’s conference recognized the centenary celebration of Nelson Mandela under the theme Long Walk to Music. Moshito ambassadors are Julian Bahula of Malombo legacy with struggle credentials and who was in the forefront of using music as a liberating tool during his exiled years in the United Kingdom. The second young ambassador is Moonchild, a young artist that is fast becoming our country’s cultural export and is currently touring the world with her eclectic style of music.

The three-day music events including 3 concerts, 2 Day showcases, and one Street Festival ensured delegates take in the sounds of the world. Kicking things off will be the Moshito Afro World Night Concert Powered by BET on 5th September at the Market Theatre, followed by the MTV Base Showcase youth @ Moshito on 6th September and closing off the festivities was the Moshito signature Free Street Festival on 7th September at Newtown Junction, Johannesburg.