Most festivals announce a lineup. Lagos feat. Paris starts earlier, in a room with a console in it.
In the days before 11 December 2026, the festival runs its Music Camp in Lagos: a working residency that brings Nigerian and French producers, writers and artists into the same studios, with no fixed agenda beyond making something together.
The format is deliberately small. A producer from Lagos and a writer from Paris, an Afrobeats drummer and an R&B arranger, one song at a time. The conversation is where the music comes from, and the festival's job is to capture it and put it in front of an audience.
Why does it matter? Because the difference between a co-branded concert and a real collaboration is time. Artists who share a studio for a week share a set. They trade melodies, argue about tempos, take a hook home and finish it at two in the morning. That is the only way a French-Nigerian stage sounds like something new instead of two lineups in a row.
The camp is also where the project's longer work begins: training, studio access and the first recordings released under the Lagos feat. Paris name.
What comes out of the rooms will be heard on 11 December at the J. Randle Centre. The rest stays in the archive and comes out later.
