Boston-Area Music Fans: Win Tickets to This Weekend's Aputumpu Festival

If you've been living up in the greater Charles River watershed, hearing about the Aputumpu festival as this amazing, local, Afro-inflected music festival happening down in New York but you were never able to attend, we've got two pieces of good news for you: 1. Aputumpu is in Boston this weekend. 2. Afropop <b>is giving away tickets</b> to some lucky soul who <b>emails <a href="mailto:info@afropop.org">info@afropop.org</a></b>, with “Boston Fest!” in the subject line. <a href="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2015/04/Aputumpu-Poster-724x1024.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22480" src="https://afropop.test.ejaedesign.com/migrated-uploads/2015/04/Aputumpu-Poster-724x1024.png" alt="Aputumpu-Poster-724x1024" width="724" height="1024" /></a> From April 10-11, Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge will taken over <a href="http://aputumpu.us/boston15/">by ten eclectic acts</a>, <span style="color: #141823;">“</span>covering everything from Afropop and Afrobeat to Ska and Indie rock,” <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/613333238796589/">according to the festival's Facebook page</a>. It's the first time in Aputumpu's brief, three-year life, that it has ventured to Beantown from its hometown of Brooklyn. Danny Mekonnen is the Ethiopian-American leader of the Debo Band, who are playing on Saturday. He gave us a rundown on the weekend: “Friday features a smorgasbord of acts that's at the pulse of the of genre-blurring that we see in Boston, while Saturday showcases the who's who African-influenced bands with five groups making their mark on Boston,” he said. “In all our years, we've never seen a bill so stacked with local talent, and I'm so excited to kick-start the festival season with Aputumpu!” "Boston's been missing a regular, mid-sized festival to celebrate the rich diversity and creativity of local bands who have been working hard at the scene for a while or are up and coming," the festival's co-producer Michael Prentky, said in a press release. It's a "mid-sized festival" at tiny festival prices: just $30 for the weekend, which Mekonnen pointed out is “about a tenth of what one would pay for a big-name festival.” But, again, you may not have to pay anything at all, which is even cheaper. Just email <a href="mailto:info@afropop.org">info@afropop.org</a> with the subject line “Boston Festival” and you could win! &nbsp;