Rolling Programme

Now entering its 15th year, the Beirut Groove Collective is a London-based collective of vinyl DJs, crate diggers, music obsessives and artists.

For over a decade, the BGC has thrown one of the SWANA region’s most popular underground clubnights in Beirut, the BGC All-Nighter, which has built an international reputation for its distinctive sound and attracted some of the world’s leading DJs, turntabalists, crate diggers and record collectors.

At their parties, the BGC plays obscure and underground clubbing records from the ‘60s-‘80s from the Middle East, Africa and around the world, an eclectic mix of Lebanese ‘60s Garage and Beat, Bellydance Psych, Arabic Disco, Latin Tarab, Armenian estradayin, Ethiopian and Sudanese Jazz, Rare Soul and Funk, Psychedelia and much more.

The BGC combines the DJ efforts of its co-founder Ernesto Chahoud, DJ, compiler, record collector and radio host (NTS, Do!! You!!!, Now-Again Records, BBE); music researcher, writer, DJ and radio host Natalie Shooter, (Radio Alhara, Do!! You!!!) and DJ, filmmaker and radio broadcaster Jackson Allers (This Diaspora Life, Movement Radio, Radio Alhara), along with its global family of DJs, collaborators and regular residents.