The Kyle Shepherd TRIO

Culture Reporter Culture 2019-10-10 03:58:14

Kyle Shepherd is arguably one of South Africa’s leading progressive pianists, composers and band leaders of his generation. Internationally recognized for his distinctive compositional style & performances, Shepherd has made a huge impression on debut as a film score composer for the critically-acclaimed film, Noem My Skollie / Call Me Thief – South Africa’s official entry to the 2017 Academy Awards – for which he scored a nomination for the 2017 South African Film & Television Award [SAFTA] for Best Achievement in an Original Music Score in a Feature Film.

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Soweto Art & Craft Fair

Culture Reporter Culture 2019-10-04 09:14:50

Happening every first Saturday of the month, Soweto Art and Craft Fair has become one of South Africa’s best Art Markets attracting visitors from all over South Africa, Africa and indeed the world.

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Isphithiphithi: From The Soil To The Sky

Culture Reporter Culture 2019-10-04 07:58:08

Samthing Soweto has been credited for his phenomenal vocal and song writing abilities, with his sound having been described as “Pantsula culture meets New Wave World”. He has also been compared to “the South African sounds of Marabi, Isqathamiya, Imbube, American doo-wop or the early Trenchtown Wailers”.

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Mandela Is Dead – Nomashenge

Culture Reporter Culture 2019-10-01 02:03:32

Now that Nelson Mandela is no longer here, is it not time to have the difficult conversation with the white settler minority? To what extent should we still hold on to the dream of non-racialism when the minority has made it clear that they do not regard Blacks as equals and would never subject themselves to the rule (economically and otherwise) of the African majority.

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Weekender – All That Jazz

Culture Reporter Culture 2019-09-27 11:35:17

Miriam was not that attractive—I mean, curves and all that jazz. I think our first concert with Miriam was somewhere in the East Rand—singing negro spirituals, you know. But still, I was not yet impressed, maybe because I was so influenced by this Negro guy— Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker.” - Kippie Moeketsi

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Macufe 2019

Culture Reporter Culture 2019-09-27 10:13:37

Cox will perform at the Divas Concert on 11 October and will be joined by Lira, Thandiswa Mazwai, Lady Zamar and Nonkosi & Khuthala. Local rappers Kwesta, Boity, Anatii, K.O and Yungsta will showcase at the Hip Hop concert on 4 October.

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Daniele Tamagni Grant

Culture Reporter Culture 2019-09-27 07:44:39

This is an international Photography Grant with funding for a Scholarship for higher education and is designed to sponsor young and emerging photographers. The spirit of this initiative promotes the dissemination of the African culture, its creativity, the impact of its visual aesthetics on the continent and the diaspora and the in-depth exploration of the photography media.

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Shabaka & The Ancestors Live

Culture Reporter Culture 2019-09-22 08:29:01

The project was formed in early 2016, leading to their debut album later that year Wisdom of Elders; a document of sessions combining Hutchings with a group of South African jazz musicians he’d long admired. His connection to the group was Mandla Mlangeni (bandleader of the Amandla Freedom Ensemble), whom he’d flown there to play with over the past few years.

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