The Unehe festival is a festival of songs, dance and masquerades. The date of the festival is usually decided by the king, chiefs and elders after oracle consultation. When the day is announced, the local musicians and their fans would erect rostrum in their various places and then carried out a serious rehearsals. The festival which is celebrated by the Ososo people and interested visitors usually last for two days. On the very first day of the festival, the people look forward to the musical night with so much excitement. The home of the musicians would be busy with visitors with some who present gifts and offer prayers and others taking Pito and sharing Cola nuts in his compound. And when the time moves closer to mounting the rostrum, the musicians would offers drink and Cola nuts or even sacrifice animal to his ancestors and also receives blessings from fathers who are still alive. The musicians will mount the rostrum by 9PM or 10PM with their backup singers and perform till dawn. At this time men and women, boys and girls, and visitors move round the community to watch performances of the musicians. When it's morning, a day usually the big market day, musicians and fans take their performance to the market and to the houses of their loved ones who pray and appreciate them with cash.
Then, comes the final day. This day begins from the night of the big market day where some big masquerades have their live performances. Unlike the Ososo Unehe musicians who sing mainly in Ososo language and little code mix with Yoruba or English languages, these masquerades perform mainly in Ebira language. This is not a slap to the festival for the fact that it is originated from the Ebira people. The morning which marks the final day of the yearly Unehe festival forbid females (old and young) except the Oyenkus from coming out of their houses till the gong is sounded to mark the end. Any woman who go against this is said to have commit a taboo and would need to confess and go for spiritual cleansing to be free. Men and the Unehe musicians celebrate this last part of the festival with Masquerades moving from homestead to homestead blessing, admonishing, warning the wrong and warding off evil spirits from the community.
Some of the Ososo Unehe musicians include Mr. Kekere Ododo, Mr. Adura Salawu Ochenigaji, Mr. Aiyejino, Mr. Oyemidele, Mr. Abasido, and many others; late and alive.