Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie will be coming to South Africa in 2016 performing ‘all the hits all night long’. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, October 21 at 9 am through www.bigconcerts.co.za and Computicket. The concerts are presented by KFM, CapeTalk, 947, 702, Algoa FM, East Coast Radio and M-Net. Continue reading
Ed Sheeran is hosting the MTV EMAs.
This year’s MTV EMAs, sponsored by Smirnoff in partnership with Expo 2015, promise a night of musical mayhem on a truly epic scale. Award-winning singer-songwriter, Ed Sheeran, together with actress, Ruby Rose, are set to host the awards – one of the biggest events in the global music calendar – from Milan, Italy. Continue reading
Hosted by none other than Uncle Snoop at the Boisfeuillet Jones Civic Center in Atlanta, Georgia, the BET Hip Hop Awards 2015 delivered yet another notable year of celebrating hip hop’s most influential artists as well as featured performances by some of the hottest names in the genre. The BET Hip Hop Awards 2015 premieres on BET (DStv channel 129) and BET2 (DStv channel 135) on Saturday, October 17 at 9.35 pm. Continue reading
Diamond Platnumz
MTV (DStv channel 130) has revealed that Diamond Platnumz is the winner of the 2015 MTV EMAs Best African Act. Scores of music fans visited mtvema.com to vote for Diamond Platnumz, who beat incredible competition from AKA, Yemi Alade, Davido, and DJ Arafat. Continue reading
Along with funding from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF), the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) will allocate an additional fourteen performing arts scholarships in 2016. Continue reading
Ed Sheeran makes his concert film debut, Jumpers for Goalposts, on cinema screens globally on the same day. In South Africa the film will be screened at select Nu Metro cineplexes on Thursday, October 22 at 8 pm. Continue reading
Pretty Yende. Photo: Kim Fox
Sony Classical has inked a long-term agreement with Pretty Yende, the sensational young South African soprano whose career has risen to the top of the opera world with unparalleled speed within the past few years. Continue reading
MORE than 250 choral singers will be performing in Let The People Sing!, a special festival of popular hymns and inspiration songs, in the Pietermaritzburg City Hall at 7 pm on Thursday, October 22. Continue reading
Mel Botes
If you’re a fan of Dire Straits, then make sure you don’t miss the one-night-only performance of Sultans Of Swing at The Barnyard Theatre at Gateway in Umhlanga on Saturday, October 17, sandwiched between two Rugby World Cup quarter-finals! Continue reading
and the riddle
MUSIC in the Hills hosts performances by the St Charles Band, Nic Pharazyn and Skippy Khubeka, Doc, Dim Dep and the African Buskers and the intriguingly named “and the Riddle” from Cape Town.
Music in the Hills takes place at The Knoll Guesthouse and Backpackers, Knoll Drive, on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm. Continue reading
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