HARARE – Jah Prayzah will showcase his latest album Jerusarema at Platinum in Mutare tonight. Interestingly, the Uzumba-born musician will be backed by upcoming musician Andy Muridzo who has been accused of being a Jah Prayzah copycat. On Sunday, he will be back in the capital city for a family show at Zebra Village. Busy…
HARARE – After her highly-rated performance alongside Malian singer Salif Keita during the Harare International Festival of the Arts, (Hifa), mbira player and vocalist Hope Masike will herald the Divas Night set for Private Lounge in Harare today. Masike will share the stage with equally-talented guitarists Edith WeUtonga and Tariro Negitare. A spokesperson for Private…
HARARE – Various members of the local arts community have lamented the sudden closure of the Book Café on Tuesday. The iconic and award-winning live arts venue finally shut its doors after succumbing to a three-year debt crisis that saw the Book Café routinely failing to pay its workers. Tuesday’s closure is the second time…
HARARE – The Book Café, arguably Harare’s most popular arts venue, has closed its doors indefinitely. The closure was announced in a press release sent yesterday by Tomas Brickhill, the Book Café managing director. “I have decided to take a step back in order to re-strategise and restructure the business,” Brickhill’s statement said. “It was…
HARARE – Simika Comedy, the brainchild of award-winning comedians Simba The Comic King and Victor “Doc Vikela” Mpofu, has come up with a free Tuesday night show at the Travel Plaza-based Gabys Restaurant. Doc Vikela, who is hosting tonight’s show in the absence of Simba The Comic King who is currently holding gigs in South…
HARARE – Tomas Brickhill, the director of the Book Café, says he is proud of the role his award-winning arts venue has played in popularising mbira music. “It (Book Café) was the first venue in town to give voice to mbira music. Mbira was not given a platform and people were not giving it the…
HARARE – Afro-fusion star Victor Kunonga’s maiden performance at Club Paramount in Chitungwiza last weekend has won the Kwedu singer new fans in a city regarded as a sungura fortress. Chitungwiza, home to some of Zimbabwe’s finest musicians, including Nicholas Zakaria, Alick Macheso, Jah Prayzah among others, has historically been dominated by sungura artistes. When…
HARARE – Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) chairperson Musaemura Zimunya says the country’s reading culture is deteriorating mainly due to technology which generates immediate gratification at the expense of long-term intellectual benefit. Zimunya, who is also chairperson of the Zimbabwe Writers Association (Zwa), said the recent Culture Week that ran from May 16 to 23,…
HARARE – United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean Afro-pop artiste Chashe Musarurwa-McTaggart has emerged as one of the hottest female musicians on the local scene largely due to her hit titled Zvokupenga. The music of Chashe, who collaborated with Tinashe Makura on the hit that has captured the imagination of young Zimbabweans, revolves around love. Chashe and Tinashe…
HARARE – Shingirayi “Mau Mau” Sabeta, one of the pioneers of Zimbabwean hip-hop, says the genre will move a notch higher if its artistes sing in their mother tongues. “Artists need to master their mother tongues and rap in those mother tongues so that we develop our own voice. Few artists are currently doing that….
