Our story
PlugnSessions is a live music experience built around intimate performances, audience participation and authentic musical collaboration. We create spaces where artists perform freely, audiences participate actively and music becomes a shared experience rather than a spectator event.
Founded on the belief that music is most powerful when there is no distance between performer and listener, PlugnSessions has hosted sold-out experiences across multiple cities and continues to build a growing global community.
We do something simple and a little radical: we take the best of the best, put them in a room with people from the city we are in, and have them create together. Not perform for. Create with.
“The magic was never the stage. It was always the room.”
Because of who these musicians are, a song is never fixed. A soul standard becomes highlife, then reggae, then something with no name yet, created on the spot. The episode does not document a performance. It documents invention happening in real time.
If the room only worked in one city, it would be a lucky accident. When the same thing happens in Seattle, Dallas, Oakland, New York, Accra and DC, it stops being luck. Each place has its own sound; every session becomes a portrait of a city, written in its own voice.
Two things working as one: the live activation, staged in a venue that carries cultural weight of its own, never a neutral stage, and the episodic release it produces. The activation creates the magic. The release lets the world feel all of it. One feeds the other, city after city.
Cities we've plugged into
Each city adds its own voice to the story. Six are captured and released. London is next.
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Ahead
The founder
Yinka Odeneye is the son of the late Apostle Dr. Henry Abayomi Odeneye, a builder and pastor who believed in creating environments that let people be their natural selves. He did it for Yoruba worship in the United States, building congregations where language, culture and faith could exist without apology. That same instinct lives in PlugnSessions: a room where musicians and audiences meet as themselves.
His two lives have always run in parallel. He went to college on a double scholarship, one for music, one for football, and after a stint in professional sport he carried both instincts into everything that followed. He has played music for 25 years, trained in the lineage of Fela Kuti under Adeyinka Oshindeinde of Femi Kuti's Positive Force.
His other life has been spent operating at global scale: professional sport, global technology, building across Africa, sitting in with bands from one city to the next. PlugnSessions is where the two lives meet: the musician who knows what has to happen in the room, and the operator who knows how to make it happen, city after city.
Our mission is to spread the gospel of love through music.