Our Stockholm! Through all these years, Selam Festival has been a celebration of music from all over the world, and we’ve always strived to reduce the distances between societies, invite musicians and artists from near and far, promote the culture and music of Africa, The Caribbean and Latin America. So to this year. But this year Selam Festival is also a celebration of Stockholm; for as long as Selam has existed African, Caribbean and Latin American music has thrived in the heart and neighbourhoods of our city, on the streets, in small local joints and popular institutions. 

We’ve always been motivated by an ambition of opening Stockholm, to enable meetings between people and fusions of cultural expressions, to open cultural institutions to new impulses and old traditions that have never before had a home at the big arenas of the capital. Open the eyes of us Stockholm dwellers and open the city for strangers. A stranger is a friend you haven’t got to know yet, and the various cultures of the city are stranger for many than it needs to be. We hope you’ll get to know about things you didn’t even knew lives where you live, and that you, as the visitor of the festival, will find new sides to your home. Because you’re worth it.  

Selam Festival Stockholm 2024 is made with the support of Stockholms Stad, Kulturrådet and Region Stockholm.