Get ready for a summer filled with music, stories, and deep reggae vibes. Haji Mike will be gracing the stage at three major festivals across Cyprus, each bringing its own unique atmosphere and community.
🔊 Loud Music Festival – Limassol
📅 6th July 2025
🎶 Reggae Stage
Kicking off the summer, Haji Mike brings his distinctive reggae sound to the vibrant Reggae Stage at Loud Music Festival. Held in Limassol, this multi-genre event promises powerful rhythms and unity through music.
👉 More about Loud Music Festival
🎨 Graphic Stories Cyprus – Paphos
📅 18–20 July 2025
As a poet, academic, and cultural activist, Haji Mike joins Graphic Stories as a featured speaker and performer. This innovative festival blends design, media, and storytelling—perfect for sharing creative journeys and radical ideas.
👉 See Haji Mike’s profile at Graphic Stories
🟩🟥🟨 One Love Reggae Festival – Paphos
📅 8–10 August 2025
Ending the summer with roots and unity, the One Love Reggae Festival is Cyprus’ ultimate celebration of reggae and dub culture. Haji Mike returns with conscious selections and deep island vibes, connecting audiences through sound.
👉 Visit One Love Festival Website
Whether you’re in Limassol or Paphos this summer, don’t miss the chance to catch Haji Mike live—sharing stories, lyrics, and reggae selections that speak to the soul.
2025
A special year, when Haji Mike hits 65, and retires from full-time teaching. Music, radio and writing continue to inspire…
‘Living Chiofta’ Book Launch, University of Nicosia, 30th April
Reggae Celebration, Rhythm In Green Sound, Haji MIke chanting on the mic @ Yalla, Nicosia, 26th April
2024
It has been a great year for gigs with events around Cyprus and the world. Playing San Francisco again was one of the main highlights of the year
One Love Festival CY 13th, 14th, 15th September, Ithaki Beach/Moni
September 28th, Hoi Polloi Nicosia ‘Reggae Night’ full acoustic & DJ Set
Haji Mike at ‘For The Love of Cyprus’ Theatro Technis, London, July 2024 – photo by Ian Moss
2023
It’s been a great and busy year gigs and event wise…with a lot more to come….
Special Tribute to DJ and Spar Dave Hucker – London, July 2023
Acoustic Poetry Launch, MyTime London, July 2023
Music-vs.-Fascism Festival Limassol July 2023 Make Music Cyprus Festival June 2023
Bob Marley and Media and Live performance of ‘Acoustic Poetry, The Faculty of Arts, Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas, Lithuania.
Haratsi Live Twitch Session Sunday 23rd April in the heart of old town Nicosia
The Sweden event book launch happened at Orebro University on 11th April and it was a great success.
The event featured live music from students playing Bob Marley’s songs with followed by the lecture. You can see it in full below
The Cyprus Book Launch of ‘Bob Marley and Media…’ was a great success. The night opened with a powerful verse from Julio, followed by the chair Nicholas Nicoli, Dennis Howard from UWI and a fiery review of the book from Nicos Trimikliniotis. It was really good talking about the book on home ground. See the live stream of the lecture here – starts at around 6 minutes….
26th Annual Bob Marley Lecture University of West Indies, Kingston Jamaica
The 26th Annual Bob Marley Lecture at The University of West Indies was a very special milestone for me as an academic and artist. Honoured and humbled to have been invited through The Institute of Caribbean Studies to deliver this prestigious lecture. Click on the image below to watch the lecture
