Zimbabwe-born musician Gabriel Makamanzi leads a music outfit — Afresh — based in Belfast, Ireland which plays a fusion of Zimbabwe traditional music supported by Irish musicians.
Voting for Hope Masike for KORA Award
Hope Masike has been nominated for the prestigious KORA All-Africa Music Awards under the Best Traditional Female Artist of Africa category. The mbira player will be up against 5 other nominees on the 20th of March. Huyai Tinamate Hope was nominated for her track Huyai Tinamate which you can listen to […]
The Heritage Survival @ Rhythmtree Festival
Anna Mudeka Singing and Drumming
Mbira Making With Sebastian Pott
The Heritage Survival: Zimbabwe @ 33
Celebrate Zimbabwe’s Independence with Zee Guveya and The Heritage Survival Band in Coventry on the Saturday 20 April at The Wheel in Coventry. £5 per person, £8 per family, £10 after 7pm. ZEE Guveya and The HERITAGE Survival Band is a group of talented musicians from Zimbabwe who have relocated […]
What people said on….
Mbira and New Technologies Tendayi Gahamadze on Facebook The MBIRA is a highly sophisticated technology which was borrowed and used in the “invention” of many so-called western musical instruments. It does not necessarily follow that when new technologies that enhance the purification of sound then people have to shun that […]