Big Voices Fest
Season 3 · Mahaba Edition
Good Music.
Better Love.
Mahaba is love in all its forms. The songs shared between couples. The memories made with friends. The healing after heartbreak, and the joy of choosing yourself. One night, one crowd, everybody speaking the same language.
10 October 2026
Tickets from KES 1,500 on Little · or dial *826*46#
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You have seen the posters.
This is the room.
Two editions in, and the receipts are the crowd: 7 million views in three months, a full house after dark and a room that sang every word back. Season 3 is built on this.
Some memories do not have photographs. They have songs.
Heartbreak may be free. Entry is not.
Bring the people who have seen every version of you and stayed.
or dial *826*46#
A stage for every generation.
Big Voices Fest is built around one powerful idea: the songs we love become the memories we keep.
The festival exists to place Mugithi on bigger stages while letting it meet and interact with other genres, cultures and generations. Mugithi is a sound curated for everyone — irrespective of language, nationality or tribe. The result is an experience where music, fashion, food, brands, creators and community come together under one identity.
To celebrate African music and shared cultural memory.
Premium entertainment with human warmth and unmistakable energy.
Bold. Nostalgic. Joyful. Connected.
Big Voices Fest is always the headline. Season 3 is the current chapter. Mahaba Edition is the theme through which Season 3 is expressed.
Mahaba is love in all its forms.
It is the emotion in a song, the memory attached to a lyric, the people we celebrate, the connections we rebuild, and the moments that stay with us long after the music ends.
Love through music
Songs, lyrics and performances become the bridge between emotion, memory and celebration.
Love beyond romance
Friendship, family, community, self-love, healing and reconciliation are all part of the story.
Cross-genre connection
Mugithi stays central while meeting other African and contemporary sounds on one stage.
Urban lifestyle
Fashion, food, creators, brands and audience energy complete the festival experience.
Premium emotion
The experience is built to feel elegant, warm, expressive, vibrant and culturally relevant.
Shared memories
The audience is invited to participate, connect and create new stories together.
Small things that count as love.
Not the greeting-card kind. The fare sent without asking, the seat saved without being told, the song that still knows somebody’s name.
the funny kind
Love is sharing fries after saying you were not hungry.
Real love is sending the full M-Pesa amount, including withdrawal charges.
Some people give you butterflies. Others give you peace and a full plate.
Love is knowing their order before they open the menu.
“Text me when you get home” is a small sentence carrying a lot of love.
Romance is nice, but have you ever been sent fare without asking?
Love is finding someone who understands that “I’m almost there” can mean twenty minutes.
Your person is the one who lets you control the playlist.
Love is remembering the story even after hearing it twelve times.
A healthy relationship has communication, patience and separate blankets.
Falling in love is easy. Choosing where to eat together is the real test.
Some relationships survive distance. Others cannot survive “seen at 9:42 PM.”
Love is allowing someone to taste your food and pretending you are okay with it.
The strongest relationships have survived bad network during serious conversations.
True love is taking fifty photos and still saying, “Let us try one more.”
What is the funniest thing someone has done for love?
Answer on @bigvoicesfestkenya— the best ones make the screens on the night.
Designed to be felt, shared and remembered.
From entrance branding and LED content to lighting, artist flow and audience sightlines, every production detail is built to make the experience feel premium and emotionally alive.
Live Music
Iconic artists, cross-generational lineups and carefully paced stage programming.
Culture & Nostalgia
Themes that unlock memory, identity, fashion, storytelling and community.
Social Connection
A safe, vibrant environment for friends, couples, families and brand communities.
Brand Immersion
Sponsor touchpoints that feel natural within the audience journey, not forced beside it.
We did not arrive at Season 3 by accident.
Each edition has tested an idea, built a community and expanded what Big Voices Fest can become.
Urban Tone Meets Mugithi
The founding idea: put Mugithi on a bigger stage and let urban sound meet it there.
Millennial Edition
6 June 2026
Nostalgia turned into discovery — the artists, fashion and songs that shaped a generation.
Mahaba Edition
10 October 2026
Good Music. Better Love. A love-led celebration of music, culture, connection and memory.
Every great love story has a soundtrack.
A glimpse of the memories.
Moments from the Millennial Edition — the crowd, the stage, the people who showed up.
A community that shows up.
Big Voices connects with urban, culture-aware audiences who value music, shared experiences and brands that participate authentically.
Selected performance highlights from the Millennial Edition campaign.
Come as you are. Come with your people.
Self-love guests, singles, couples, families and whole mbogis — every kind of love has a ticket, from KES 1,500 to KES 9,500.
Book on Little, or dial *826*46#
Urban wear with a touch of red. Varsity layers, cargo denim, clean sneakers, statement boots — red should be intentional and visible.
Questions, answered.
Season 3 is live
Good Music.
Better Love.
Big Voices Fest returns on 10 October 2026 with the Mahaba Edition. Come for self-love. Come single. Come with your person. Come with your whole mbogi.
Dial *826*46# · Follow @bigvoicesfestkenya
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