Benjamin Jephta, the 2017 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz.
This July, the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival (SBNYJF) is celebrating 25 years of investing in the country’s young musicians – with yet another unparalleled instalment of great music masterclasses and clinics.
The festival, which runs until July 8, takes place alongside the Standard Bank Jazz Festival – the country’s oldest jazz festival – in Grahamstown during the National Arts Festival. Continue reading
Dave Monks and Marion Loudon will be performing the music of the sixties at the Rhumbelow Theatre in Pietermaritzburg. Photo: Supplied
DAVE Monks and Marion Loudon will be going back to the Swinging 60s in their latest show, being staged at the Rhumbelow Theatre at the Allan Wilson Shellhole, 5 Durban Road, Pietermaritzburg at 2 pm and 6.30 pm on Sunday, July 9. Continue reading
Kahn Morbee.
Kahn Morbee has released his second solo studio album, A Noise in the Void. The album, which is available for download and on CD in music stores nationwide, has already delivered five of the singles, including the iTunes number one collaboration with Karen Zoid, We Could Be Divine. Continue reading
THE Durban based all-female jazz band, Heels over Head, has just returned home after staging a stunning performance at the Essence Festival in New Orleans on Friday, June 30.
John Legend and Diana Ross, Solange and Mary J. Blige, among the musicians who performed alongside the band at the prestigious festival. Continue reading
Performing in That’s All Folk are (from left) Ryan Calder, Tammy Calder, Daniel Rossouw, (seated from left) Katherine McClelland and Sandra Styles. Photo: Supplied
THE Hexagon Dive Theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus is playing host to That’s All Folk, an evening of folk music from the sixties and seventies from July 12 to 15. Continue reading
Kwini Kuza are making waves on the South African music scene. Photo: Hart Media
A GROUP of teenage prodigies from Durban and the North Coast is making waves on the South African music scene, writes ESTELLE SINKINS.
Kwini Kuza, which is made up of singers and musicians aged between 13 and 14, formed in February 2016 and have performed around KwaZulu-Natal, including at the Ballito Pro, White Mountain Festival, KZN Music Imbizo, Awesome Ilembe Music Festival, Shisa Nyama Festival, Zini Music Festival and Tongaat Charity Fair. Continue reading
Kéch Sánchez of Pan Latino.
Andrew Seymour, Matt Gardner and Pan Latino are set to delight music-lovers at Music in the Hills (MiTH) on Wednesday, July 5 at The Knoll Historic Guest Farm in Knoll Drive, Hilton. Continue reading
The Corobrik Orchestra 2014 mass rehearsal in progress, with conductor Richard Cock on the podium. Photo: BCHA
ASPIRANT orchestral musicians in the Durban are being invited to audition for the British Cultural and Heritage Association (BCHA)’s Corobrik Orchestra 2017 project.
During a concert at 2.30pm on Sunday, August 20 a massed adhoc orchestra will perform under the baton of South African conductor, Richard Cock, in the Penzance School Nkulisa Conference Centre, 61 Penzance Road, Glenwood. Continue reading
Ildo Nandja.
THE Ildo Nandja Trio will perform at the Jazzy Rainbow in Durban’s Morningside on Friday, July 7 as part of the Concerts SA circuit which aims to foster a love and support for live music in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Western Cape.
The trio comprises Ildo Nandja on upright bass and vocals, Neil Gonsalves on piano and Sibusiso Zondi on drums. Continue reading
BARBIE Meyer and Jonathan Brauteseth will be presenting a concert at St Ives in Lions River at 6pm for 6.30 pm on Thursday, July 6. Continue reading
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