Zwa | Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th October
innate creates presents Zwa… music, words, feels, culture
Norfolk’s first ever Zwa is landing! A celebration of music and spoken word mixing artists from London and Manchester with some of Norfolk’s incredible musicians, producers, DJ’s & poets.
If you’re into jazz or drum ‘n’ bass or poetry or community vibes or stunning vocals or Quiet books or positive learnings & actions or hip hop or dancing… we got you.
Friday 3rd October | OneDa, Ghetto Orange & Orlo
drum n bass, hip hop, underground beats
OneDa is a boundary pushing Manchester rapper, producer fusing hip-hop, drum & bass, and spoken word. Since her days MC’ing alongside renowned hip hop collective The Mouse Outfit, OneDa has carved out her own lane both nationally and internationally with support from BBC Radio 1, 6 Music and 1Xtra.
Artist support comes from Norfolk-raised, London-based Ghetto Orange. Having created his own music festival Ghetto Orange is known to have his finger firmly on the pulse of music. Expect music that blends insightful, uplifting lyrics with nostalgic, melodic hip hop beats.
Orlo is a young, up-and-coming dj & producer with a love for dark grooves and hard-hitting basslines. His recently released debut album Dreamstate journeys us from garage to bass-driven house.
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Saturday 4th October | Zola Marcelle & Amy Nomvula
alt-jazz, world, soul
Zola Marcelle has a voice that transports you in time and place… soulful tones weaving amidst alt-jazz rhythms.
Zola has performed and headlined with her bass trio/quartet at some of London’s most iconic venues/showcases, such as EartH Hackney with JAZZ RE:FEST 2022, the Jazz Cafe, Southbank Centre, EFG London Jazz Fest 2024. Zola has also worked alongside some of the UK’s finest jazz musicians including Daniel Casimir, Ashley Henry, Sheila Maurice-Grey and Myele Manzanza.
Artist support comes from Amy Nomvula who is set to select some jazz records from her record collection.
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Sunday 5th October | Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Desree & Piers Harrison-Reid
spoken word
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist who has had residencies in the US, Brazil and the V&A Museum in London.
Her debut poetry collection, Quiet, was published by Faber in 2022, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry and the John Pollard Foundation International Prize.
Desree is an award-winning writer, spoken word artist and community facilitator whose work explores themes of justice, intersectionality and social commentary.
Her work has been broadcast on The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah and published in JOY/US Poems of Queer Joy, Spoken Word London’s Anti-Hate Anthology and more.
Desree’s poetry collection, Altar, (2025, Bad Betty Press) is shortlisted for a 2025 Forward Poetry Prize Award.
The gentle insights and powerful imagery of Piers Harrison-Reid have been helping us make sense of the world around us for a long time. His words are beautifully crafted self-reflective exploration of life, love, loss.
Piers has shared line-ups that travel the spectrum from Scroobius Pip and Buddy Wakefield to Dean Atta and Benjamin Zephaniah.
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The word Zwa is from the Ndebele language spoken by the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe – it means to hear, to understand, to feel, to taste.
