The West African Festival is one of Kansas City’s greatest festivals of the spring. After a couple residents decided the season needed something to look forward to the festival was started in 1995. West African Festival became a reality because Rick Brady took the initial idea and worked out all the details. Without much funding the tour started out small, using a lot of local performers..

It took a couple of years, but eventually word spread and West African Festival received some attention The tour booked bigger acts and the attention the tour received increased exponentially. Hotel rooms in the city were soon being booked months in advance for the dates around West African Festival.

Now West African Festival sells out months in advance, with tickets generally gone before the first week of their being released. Organizers of the tour no that they have a responsibility to ask local groups to sing, even though they could probably get just about any group they want. West African Festival seems to get bigger every year, with more stages and more acts every time around.

This year’s tour is already getting more buzz than last year’s tour, with more big name acts than ever before. West African Festival’s tickets for their latest tour are available on TheSeats.com, along with the complete concert schedule and seating charts.