Mike and the Mechanics: Mike Rutherford’s “Living Years 25” for South Africa
Mike and the Mechanics skipped Cape Town when they played in South Africa in 1995. Now Mike Rutherford, who owns a house in Cape Town, rode the Cape Argus Cycle Tour […]
Mike and the Mechanics skipped Cape Town when they played in South Africa in 1995. Now Mike Rutherford, who owns a house in Cape Town, rode the Cape Argus Cycle Tour […]
From time to time, this blog will run press releases when it seemed the news is just too damned good not to share. Like this one, which sees Dave Matthews […]
UK-based singer-songwriter Jon Gomm shot to fame after celebrities as diverse as thespian Stephen Fry and glam-rocker Tommy Lee crowed over his song “Passionflower“. Now he comes to South Africa for the […]
“Ragas of the Desert” sees Grammy-winning Indian slide guitarist Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt melding Indian classical and folk music, and collaborating with “Karoo Kitaar Blues” star Hannes Coetzee and his “slide-spoon” technique and SA Music […]
Jazz trumpeter, composer and flugelhorn player Marcus Wyatt returns from a residency in Basel to release his latest offering: an album honouring South African traditions and evidencing a rich thread of international […]
You don’t really listen to Jill Scott during a live show – you feel it. With an on-stage back-line that included drums, bass, keyboards, trombone, trumpet and guitar, as well as her […]
In 2006, Marcus Wyatt released “Language12“, an album that I’ve quipped has been my favourite SA jazz album of the year ever since. Now he launches a new album composed in Sophiatown and […]
Bridges For Music does it again. After Skrillex and Richie Hawtin, the electronic music outreach group has internationally acclaimed DJ, producer and label boss Luciano (Cadenza, Ibiza Vagabundos) doing workshops and gigs in Soweto (26 March) and Langa (27 March). This article […]
Following last year’s sold-out Oesfees at Solms-Delta, the annual Franschhoek harvest festival returns with Mango Groove headlining alongside local gems from the farm’s Music van de Caab rural music heritage […]
With the 2013 edition of the annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival due in a month, here’s Evan Milton’s review of the 2012 festival, loving the the jazz on offer, […]