AFTER successfully hosting the inaugural July Festival over the weekend, the Odyssey Kadoma has lined up another high-profile gig featuring the big three — Winky D, Jah Prayzah and Alick Macheso. The forthcoming event, running under the banner Kadoma Music Festival, is slated for October 14. “The idea is to make Kadoma an entertainment hub….
INUGUARAL Simon Chimbetu Music Festival — an event meant to honour legendary Dendera music icon Simon Chimbetu— is on the cards. His son, Sulumani Chimbetu, told the Daily News yesterday the event is tentatively slated for August 14, the day his father breathed his last.“We used to celebrate his legacy through ‘Simon Chimbetu Commemorations’ but…
POPULAR theatrical play Billion Dollar Campaign will be screened again at Theatre in the Park in Harare this Friday. This comes as the country is hurtling towards the August 23 general elections. Pregnant with poll messages, the play — written and directed by Thulani Mbambo — features characters such as Julian Tshuma, Leonard Phiri, Memory…
MBIRA artist Martha Mafuleni died in a road accident last week, plunging the arts industry into mourning. She was 46. Martha passed away with other family members while travelling to Harare from Mutare, Honde Valley, where they had attended a family funeral. She was married to the equally-renowned artist Jacob Mafuleni. “I do not even…
A NEW local drama series The Return of Gringo — meant to pay tribute to the late veteran actor Lazarus Boora— will premiere at Ster Kinekor Joina City in the capital tonight. Penned by veteran playwright Enock Chihombori, the drama series features most of the visible characters in the previous Gringo editions, the likes of…
THE double-album launch format recently popularised by music star Jah Prayzah is slowly becoming fashionable. At the weekend award-winning songbird Janet Manyowa launched two albums — Father’s House and Nenyasha — barely two months after Jah Prayzah pulled off a similar feat, launching two 13-track albums in a space of two days.The Uzumba-born musician launched…
AT LEAST 22 models with albinism from across Africa will battle it out in the inaugural Mister and Miss Albinism Southern Africa set to take place on October 14 at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC). Pageant director Brenda Mudzimu told the Daily News that they had now settled on the spacious HICC due to…
EIGHTEEN Music Business students from the Music Crossroads Academy graduated with certificates at a colourful ceremony held at Theatre in the Park in the capital yesterday.The academy seeks to improve self-awareness and social inclusion of young African individuals by serving as a resource for the development of the local music infrastructure.“We are so excited out…
POPULAR duo- Chipo Muchegwa and Terrance Tichaona “Terry G” Green will kick off their maiden tour of the region in the city of Mogoditshane early next month. The two musicians, who shot to national fame with the video of the song Ndezvemoyo, which has garnered close to two million views on Youtube, will perform alongside…
THOUSANDS of entertainment-loving people in the Harare suburb of Mabvuku and its environs braved the cold weather on Thursday to attend a concert held to welcome American boxing legend Floyd Mayweather at Mabvuku Number 1 ground. The event, dubbed the Mayweather Motherland Tour Zimbabwe concert, organised by Pedzisayi ‘‘Scott’’ Sakupwanya’s Better Brands, was part of…
