BULAWAYO – Jazz group, The Outfit Band, will launch their 10-track debut album titled Smile at Horizon Club in the City of Kings on March 28. After several years on the Bulawayo music scene, the contemporary jazz group has finally plucked up the courage to give the world a glimpse of what they are capable…
HARARE – Gospel musician Sebastian Magacha has assembled a 15-member Pan-African group featuring several nationalities. According to Magacha, the praise and worship group that has been fittingly named African Praise, is composed of Zimbabweans, Congolese, Zambians and Kenyans. “It is a group with a difference because we have decided to take a different route from…
LONDON – When I started this column six weeks ago, my main goal was to open up a platform for discussion on issues that directly affected the African Fashion Industry at the same time promoting local talent. This week got me so excited when I heard that Zimbabwean Designer Trish Carmen, who has been based…
GWERU – Comedians Carl Joshua Ncube, Michael Kudakwashe and Nqobizita “Q the Boss” Siziba will descend on Gweru on March 28 for their maiden show in the city. Event organiser Muneer Walele told the Daily News that the trio had confirmed their participation in the highly-anticipated show. “We encourage the people of Gweru to come…
HARARE – Tryson and Suluman Chimbetu will participate in a memorial gig in honour of late dendera music icon Naison Chimbetu set for next month in the Harare Gardens. The duo who have in the past traded barbs in the media, will share the stage with some of Zimbabwe’s top musicians who include sungura kingpin…
HARARE – Book Café founder Paul Brickhill, Fred Zindi and Oliver Mtukudzi’s former manager Debbie Metcalfe, are part of the six-member Wene Music Awards Adjudication Panel unveiled by Rooftop Promotions yesterday. The high-powered jury, announced in Harare yesterday, also includes Nigel Munyati, a founding trustee of the Zimbabwe International Film Festival Trust (ZIFFT), Joyce Jenje…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo poet Solwazi ‘Eternity’ Nkiwane, 24, has finally published an anthology titled Truth Be Told that she began working on at the age of 13. The 21-poem collection includes two pieces originally published by Radio Dialogue in their magazine YDB and one by Mgcini Nyoni’s Bulawayo Poetry. Her two pieces that featured on…
BULAWAYO – Amabooks, the local publishers of annual Caine Prize anthology, regards the hosting of a workshop for the coveted literary prize as a big honour for Zimbabwe. The Caine Prize workshop, featuring 13 African writers, five of them Zimbabwean, will begin at Leopard Rock Hotel in Vumba tomorrow and end on March 31. Brian…
HARARE – Pole dancer Zoey Sifelani’s School of Dancing set up in Harare last year to mentor housewives on matters of the bedroom and physical fitness appears to have ceased operations. While the controversial dancer, who recently launched her debut music album called Totsemukira, refused to confirm the closure, she however admitted to the Daily…
HARARE – Regional castings for the Miss Carnival pageant that will take place in Harare on May 16 will begin tomorrow in Mutare and Gweru at the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) Offices. The Carnival Queen Zimbabwe team will then conduct castings in Masvingo and Bulawayo on March 23 before holding auditions in the border towns…
