A search for “mbira tutorial” on YouTube will bring up many lessons in various teaching styles on how to play different types of mbira. How many of these videos are actually good? How many will lead you down a fool’s errand in your mbira learning journey? Is learning mbira on […]
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A View on Innovation and Preservation in African Music
An opinion piece by Andreas Keller (Nannus) This article was originally a comment to an article by Ignatius Mabasa on this post Zimbabwe: Artistes Must Try New Things. The question raised in Mabasa’s article is whether musicians should innovate or just preserve the old music. I think both must be done. I […]
New Mbira Album: Chawapiwa by Forward Kwenda Mbira Madzimbahwe
Multimedia digital ethnographic archive of Tute Chigamba
Mbira singing workshop with Anna Mudeka
Join Anna Mudeka for a special mbira singing workshop on Saturday 25th March at Cranworth Village hall from 10am-4pm. Audiences will be transported to Zimbabwe through music which has been played for over a thousand years by the Shona people. Anna will talk and play the Mbira and share traditional songs with […]
Ticha Muzavazi’s Nyunga Mbira Handbook Launch
Renowned Zimbabwean mbira teacher, player, manufacturer and poet Ticha Muzavazi (Trust Mutekwa) will be launching a groundbreaking mbira handbook for nyunga nyunga on the 11th of March. With copies already selling fast, make sure that you get your hands on a copy. What’s in the handbook? If you are wondering […]
Moor Mbira 2017 with Chartwell Dutiro
Take part in the 6th Moor Mbira camp for three days of playing, sharing and learning Mbira Music with Chartwell Dutiro at the stunning Hillyfield woodland farm on Dartmoor. This is a small, family friendly and intimate camp. Mbira players of levels of all welcome. We will be Camping, Sharing Food & […]
Join Caution Shonhai at Camp Pamuzinda
Renowned mbira player and teacher Caution Shonhai will be hosting Camp Pamuzinda from 9am February 5th to 9am February 18, 2017. About Camp Pamuzinda The camp will be at Nyamayaro village in Nyamweda, Mhondoro, Zimbabwe. this is a great opportunity to learn how to play traditional mbira as well as other […]
Rendezvous with Mbira Player and Singer Hope Masike
Mbira player and singer Hope Masike continues to captivate audiences both in Zimbabwe and abroad with her music. She was interviewed by TRT World as part of ‘Rendezvous’, a series of short portraits of prominent artists and intellectuals around the world. About Hope Masike Masike takes pride in together-blending mbira […]