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HARARE – Sungura musician Aliah Mwanambo, aka First Farai, will perform at City Sports Bar’s weekly musical event — jam session — tonight in Harare. He will share the stage with Wellington Maruta, Moosafa, Ammui Jamanda, Sister Fox, Tendai Chimombe, Tete Pipilo, Romeo Gasa, Hwesa Masango, Progress Chipfumo, Angel Sweetness, King Omale, Sir Nato and Talking Guitars among others….

HARARE – I first met Dick Chingaira in 1985. I was eighteen. Benny Miller and Jane Bartlett had a record company called One World Records and Cde. Chinx and the Barrel Of Peace was the first artist that they recorded. Benny Miller had allowed me to come round to the One World recording studio and…

HARARE – South Africa-based sound engineer and ex-Ilanga keyboardist, Keith Farquharson, has praised local music star Jah Prayzahfor his versatility. The 2011 winner of South African Music Awards (Sama) Best Sound Engineer gong, who has mixed and mastered music for a number of local artistes, has singled out the Jerusarema hit-maker as the most impressive…

HARARE – Local music star Jah Prayzah’s manager, Keen Mushapaidze, says the Jerusarema singer, who performed in Chimoio, Mozambique on June 25, is getting more foreign concerts as a spin-off of his collaborations with top African stars. To date, Jah Prayzah has collaborated with African music giants Mafikizolo, Tanzanian international artiste Diamond Platnumz, Nigerian music…

HARARE – Jamaican artistes have been increasingly flocking to Harare especially from 2009 when the country adopted the multi-currency system. In August alone, Harare is going to host two Jamaican international reggae icons in the form of Busy Signal and Beenie Man on August 5 and 26 respectively. The former will be showcasing at Glamis…

HARARE – Ngoma Nehosho, which hosted Grammy Award-winning British soul singer Joss Stone at 7 Arts Theatre in Harare at the beginning of this month, has come up with a new music festival set for October. Director of Ngoma Nehosho Music Festival, Walter Wanyanya has promised a line-up full of world-class performers from all genres….

HARARE – Jive Zimbabwe and Oyos Music (Oyos) — two of Zimbabwe’s leading online music stores — have said fans are gradually warming up to buying music on their platforms. Under the concept, similar to iTunes, music fans pay — through various methods, including Zimswitch, Mastercard and Visa Card — to download songs from the…

HARARE – Award-winning female dancer Cheryl Mabaya is endowed with captivating confidence that might easily be mistaken for arrogance. The Inkululeko Yabatsha School of Arts (Iyasa dancer, who has been on tour with the award-winning Bulawayo dance group in Austria since March, believes she deserves a place among the country’s best ever female dancers. “I…

BULAWAYO – Musician Clement Ncube, better known in music circles as Clement Magwaza is convinced that fast-paced music genres like sungura and tshibilika will always remain the bedrock of Zimbabwean music. Despite playing second fiddle to music genres followed by the youths like Zimdancehall and Zim hip-hop over the past few years, Magwaza believes tshibilika/sungura…

HARARE – Today it will be the turn of Masvingo to host the 2017 provincial finals of the annual Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Festival. Over 10 groups will converge at Farai Beerhall in the historic town of Masvingo to slug it out for the provincial crown won by Dzimbabwe Traditional Dance at Huruyadzo Bar in…