Newtown Junction is playing host, on Sunday, November 8, from 12 noon to 2 pm, to a living legend: the unique and dynamic Pops Mohamed with The Millennium Experience.

‘’We are proud to be hosting another legend, musical maestro Pops Mohamed, at Newtown Junction”, says Michael Clampett, asset manager at Attacq Limited. “This association with Pops is gratifying, as it consolidates that element of our vision which is to actively support arts, culture and heritage.”

The Millennium Experience features Mohamed together with another living legend, Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse and Ashish Joshi and Poorvi Barna.

A fusion of cultures and music is taken to a whole new level with the blending of classical Indian music, featuring the tabla and sitar performed by Joshi and Barna respectively; traditional African instruments, mainly the Kora, including a San bow, a thumb piano and a variety of whistles, performed by Mohamed and wind instruments, saxophones and flute performed by ‘Hotstix’.

Mohamed, an acclaimed musician and producer and South Africa’s leading indigenous-contemporary-crossover artist is a master of a large number of instruments – the kora (West African harp), mbira (thumb piano from Zimbabwe), Khoisan bow, the didgeridoo (native to the Aboriginal people of Australia) and and the birimbau (developed by the South American Indians and the Khoisan of the Kalahari Desert).

Through his long and diverse career he has released 37 albums, won multiple awards, recorded with the Khoisan people in the Kalahari and toured globally with the likes of Andreas Vollenweider and Baaba Maal.

This celebrated ethnic African musician is a firm traditionalist and he is revered for his skills and talent by his peers, while younger musicians admire him and are in awe of his instrumental skills and his passion and knowledge of the musical tradition which he has fought to protect and preserve.

He actively encourages young South African musicians and teaches them how to play traditional instruments. His advice to them is, “seek your inspiration from your roots”.

Entrance is free.