HARARE – Music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi will take the commemorations of his late son Sam to Bulawayo’s Large City Hall on April 29. The Bulawayo gig, that will feature Tuku, Gary Tight, Jeys Marabini and the Pakare Paye Ensembles, is a follow-up to the mega concert held at Pakare Paye Arts Centre in Norton…
HARARE – Dendera star Suluman Chimbetu will share the stage with upcoming musician Potifa Mopo at City Sports Bar in the capital tonight. Musicians, poets mark Shakespeare’s milestone.artistes, who include Hope Masike ,Victor Kunonga along with poets Albert Nyathi, Chirikure Chirikure, Tehn Diamond, Cynthia “Flowchyld” Marangwanda, Tendekai “Madzitatiguru” Tati, Peggie “Umind?!” Shangwa, RAE Lyric, Anthea…
HARARE – Artists have generally welcomed the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (Stem) initiative but insist that a similar intervention must also be introduced to prop up the arts. Stem, which seeks to educate students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — is an inter-disciplinary and applied approach introduced by the…
HARARE – Musicians Hope Masike and Victor Kunonga, along with poets Albert Nyathi and Chirikure Chirikure, are among top artists scheduled to perform at Celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare that will take place at Alliance Francaise Harare on Saturday. The free event, being jointly-organised by the British Council…
HARARE – The recent album launches, by sungura musician Alick Macheso and that of Sam Dondo last week have shown that music is a business that needs serious planning and execution. While Macheso launched his album titled Tsoka Dzerwendo at the Harare International Conference Centre, his marketing strategy to release the album three days before…
BULAWAYO – Fiesta Youth Festival, an event which seeks to promote the participation of young people in the arts as well as grooming them into fully-fledged art practitioners, will run from April 22 to 30. Festival spokesperson Dylan Mandaza told the Daily News that the organisers are determined to create an influential platform for young…
HARARE – Protest actor Sylvanos Mudzvova will take his one-man play titled Missing Diamonds: I Want My Share to Theatre in the Park this evening. Mudzvova was briefly arrested last week just six minutes into the performance of the political satire outside Parliament. The arrest disrupted the feisty actor’s plans to take the same play…
HARARE – Female Zimdancehall artiste Juwela says her latest single titled Terms and Conditions is an attempt to appeal to music fans beyond Zimbabwe’s borders. As part of her rebranding efforts, the rising chanter, who was born Edeline Mapuranga, released a video for her latest single which she believes will attract music fans outside Zimdancehall….
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s top Afro-fusion band Mokoomba performs in Europe from mid-June to the end of August as part of a tour that will take them to at least seven countries. Mokoomba, who recently toured Canada and the United States of America, will perform in Europe buoyed by their historical debut at the Apollo Theatre…
HARARE – With the 2018 elections just on the horizon, the photo exhibition titled Reflections that commemorates victims of the 2008 political violence acts as a reminder to perpetrators of political violence to desist from such barbaric acts while at the same time it seeks to heal victims of violent intimidation, rape, torture, assault and…
