Tickets and weekend passes to the 2019 Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival are a hot commodity, selling out in record time.

For the first time since 2012, Ontario Place will be fully open to the public later this year for the staging of an arts and world music festival.

Fueled by the high-volume music and fast-talking rappers, the Somali crowd danced, shouted and sang. Mogadishu's first music festival in decades acted as another step in moving past a city soundscape once filled with gunfire and mortar shells.