© EVERY Sunday, Harare’s Red Café vibrates to the sweet mbira sounds from one of the emerging talents in that genre; Virimayi Nhedega, whose stage name is Vee Mhofu. The joint — which has turned out to be a cultural hub hosting all kinds of musical genres and album launches — is always a hive…
© In a video, RnB sensation Trevor Dongo has announced that he will be performing at an event dubbed One-Night Stand with Trevor Dongo to be held at Solomons Lifestyle Café in Harare on August 17. The performance will mainly be targeting single ladies as well as bachelors as there are expected to be lots…
© A NEW 24-hour news service, Newzroom Afrika, has been launched on DStv, available to viewers on DStv Access, Family, Compact, Compact plus and Premium packages. [GoogleAd] Liz Dziva, publicity and public relations manager of MultiChoice Zimbabwe said the channel was launched on July 15 and was showcased on DStv just two months after being…
© ONLY a handful of music lovers turned up for the Oliver Mtukudzi tribute concert held at Belgravia Sports Club in the capital on Saturday. [GoogleAd] The development was largely attributed to electronic money transfer challenges experienced over the weekend. Apart from the cash challenges, the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe organised-gig was inadequately promoted…
© TO SIGN or not to sign is the dilemma many independent music artistes are faced with. [GoogleAd] Not anymore for Hope Masike. After over a decade as an independent recording and performing artiste, the princess of mbira, recently put pen to paper and signed a contract with Riverboat Records — a United Kingdom-based record…
© “A prophet is not without honour except in his hometown and in his own household. And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.” This verse from the Biblical book of Matthew aptly sums up what has been happening to Zimbabwe’s self-styled “prophets”, who have been shunned at home as…
FORMER Amakhosi Theatre School student Edith Katiji better known as Edith WeUtonga has seen it all in her musical career spanning nearly two decades and in a candid interview with Daily News on Sunday’s Lifestyle Writer — Tinashe Sibanda — the feisty vocalist and bassist speaks about how she has navigated her way in the…
© ARTS WATCH brings you the fifth instalment of a five-part series on music censorship in Zimbabwe since independence. FIFTY personalities who included journalists, musicians, government officials, music administrators, and radio and television presenters spent a historic day locked in a discussion on music censorship. The personalities converged at the then The Mannenberg Jazz Club,…
© Johnny Clegg’s final journey is over. It came to an end after he had endured a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was always most comfortable — in the public view, on stage, singing, playing guitar and township concertina — telling life stories and stomping around like a 25-year-old. Watching Clegg on stage in…
In the hours after his passing, as tributes poured in, one started getting a sense of just how loved and admired Clegg truly was — across the political spectrum and across the world. Not that we didn’t have a sense of it during his lifetime, of course. He was known across continents, recipient of an…
