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TNM: 5 fans win tickets to Lake of Stars festival

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NM's Chimwemwe Mganga( R) presenting ticket to Mwanja
Always with you-TNM’s Chimwemwe Mganga( R) presenting ticket to Mwanja

Blantyre, September 24, 2018—TNM Plc, mobile telecoms and ICT partner of the Lake of Stars Festival is proud to announce the five lucky winners in the just ended social media competition ahead of the arts and culture event.

To stand a chance of winning, fans and festival lovers were asked to post “Like” on TNM’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages.

For Facebook (TelekomNetworksMalawi), users were required to answer a question on “Which TNM product allows them to cash out from your bank even when there is no ATM around” whilst for Twitter, fans were  asked to “post a video of them singing the most popular Sauti Sol Song with caption #IssaFestivoo.

For Instangram (@alwayswithyoumw ) TNM simply asked fans to post their best photo having fun in the sun with the hashtag #IssaFestivoo.

Speaking during tickets presentation in Blantyre Public Relations Manager Limbani Nsapato said the promotion received overwhelming response from the fans and TNM was excited to offer five tickets to lucky winners.

“TNM has decided to extend the Lake of Stars Festival buzz and fever to its customers on social media as one way of appreciating their love of music and tourism, which the festival delivers on one platform. As the festival gets underway from September 28, these five winners will be there to enjoy the music, beauty and sun-bath which the festival offers to fans and TNM will be there to share the fun with them,” Nsapato said.

Apart from giving out free tickets, TNM Plc is also offering a 13.5 % ticket discount to the festival for customers who buy tickets through TNM’s mobile money service Mpamba by September 27, 2018.

“Through this limited offer, TNM has made it possible for many people to buy tickets at an affordable price and convenient means. Festival goers will pay K32,000.00, down from K37,000.00 saving K5,000 if they buy the tickets on Mpamba.  Our hope is that this will help increase patronage to the concert and the bigger the audience, the better for the good of Malawi’s arts and tourism,” he said.

One of the lucky tickets winners Justin Mwanja from Lilongwe thanked TNM for making it possible for social media fans to be part of this year’s festival.

Other lucky tickets winners Grant Victor , Danny DaSilva, Karen Tembo and Manuel Joze Serafim Da Silva. Other 15 winners went away with various TNM goodies.

The three-day festival will host a fusion of local and international music acts, food, technology, and wellness on the beaches of Kabumba Hotel, on the fringes of Lake Malawi in Salima, Central Malawi.

A number of acts will come from Europe, including Germany group, Makatumbe Band and Scotland’s Michael Pedersen. Sauti Sol from Kenya and Major Lazer Sound System from USA are also part of the headliners.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the critically acclaimed festival since its inception and promises to be a mix of local and international talent, a bevy of holiday fun by the lake and a relaxing getaway on the beach. Ends#

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Lake of Stars Festival sets March 11 for Scotland show

Maravi Post Reporter

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Lake of Stars Festival, which returns to the shores of Lake Malawi this year after a one-year break, has announced that its Glasgow, Scotland, event will be held on March 11 2018.

A press release from Lake of Stars Festival available to The Maravi Post this week says Set It Off is both a creative and challenging production and that the concept takes a gender equality approach to show how both men and women underpin the creative sector.

“We’ve always represented women on stage and behind the scenes at Lake of Stars, but felt we still had a way to go in showcasing the great female talent in the industry. Set It Off is all about bringing that talent to people in the most exciting way possible,” Yolanda Ng’oma, Lake of Stars Festival Set It Off event manager, said.

Ng’oma said the Zomba one day festival is free and open to the general public.

She further said the event is produced in partnership with Hivos, an organisation that seeks new and creative solutions to persistent global problems.

Lake of Stars Festival has therefore indicated that it will start receiving applications from artists, vendors and volunteers in February 2018 and that details on venue and line-up will be announced in March 2018.
Ahead of the main festival in the country from September 28 to 30, Lake of Stars Festival has indicated that it will hold a series of events.

The event founder Will Jameson added that Lake of Stars Festival Glasgow will be for a day and that it will be held in partnership with Scotland Malawi Partnership.

Jameson said, as part of their 15th anniversary celebrations next year, Lake of Stars Festival will have a sequence of events, which will include shows in Zomba, Malawi, and London in the United Kingdom (UK).

“Our Glasgow event will take place at the Art School and will feature free daytime performances as well as a Malawi market, followed by a ticketed evening concert with special guests Scott Hutchinson, the lead vocalist of Frightened Rabbit, Ghanian hip hop artist Manifest and Malawi’s Faith Mussa,” he said.

The others are poet Michael Pedersen of Neu Reekie and DJ Auntie Flo. Other acts will come from Zambia and South Africa.

Lake of Stars Festival also said that the event will kick-start Scotland’s Buy Malawi Week and feature products such as rice, coffee, tea as part of promoting trade, travel and culture between the two countries.

Jameson said the Lake of Stars Festival London aims at promoting blossoming talent from the UK and Africa.

Lake of Stars Festival has run events and festivals in the UK and Malawi since 2003, showcasing artists from Malawi, across Africa and around the world.

Jameson said the festival has generated an estimated £1.3 million for Malawi’s economy each year.
The organisers have since said that the event in Zomba, dubbed Set It Off, will be held at Chancellor College— University of Malawi— on January 27.