Afrobeats Meets Amapiano Shoreditch

A club night in Shoreditch built around Afrobeats and amapiano, two dance music styles, at The Cornershop Bar, a London venue for concerts and shows.

The event takes its name from the two genres it centres on: Afrobeats, the West African-rooted pop style that developed in Nigeria and Ghana and has spread widely through its rhythms and sung hooks, and amapiano, a South African house-derived genre built on log drum basslines and slow, loping grooves. Placing the two side by side makes the programme a dance-led evening rather than a single-artist concert, with the music driven by its rhythms and tempo.

The Cornershop Bar hosts concerts and shows in London, and this night is staged there in Shoreditch. The event is aimed at people who want to dance to contemporary African club music in a bar setting, and it suits anyone familiar with either genre as well as those discovering them for the first time.

The title does not name individual performers, so the lineup is best understood as a themed night of music rather than a headline act. Guests interested in the rhythms of these two styles will find the subject clearly defined by the title itself.