HARARE – Award-winning South African actor Vusi Kunene and Burkina Faso film director Idrissa Ouedraogo are star guests at this year’s edition of the Zimbabwe International Film Festival (ZIFF) which kicked off yesterday. The Burkinabe director won an award for his film Tilaï The Law at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, the Fipresci Award for…
HARARE – Hip-hop star Junior Brown in partnership with his bosom buddy Tehn Diamond has captured the imagination of the nation with several hits that have become firm favourites at parties and on the country’s radio stations. Daily News’ Tarisai Machakaire (TM) recently spoke to the famous rapper on his burgeoning career. Below are excerpts…
HARARE – Trailblazing Mokoomba warmed up for next week’s Songlines Music Awards 2013 Winners’ Concert where they will be given the Newcomer’s Award with a spellbinding concert at the Book Café on Friday. The Victoria Falls Band will be honoured in London on December 13 for their album Rising Tide along with best artiste winner…
HARARE – Mbare was crowned King of Dancehall ghetto at a colourful event graced by Jamaican international artiste Sheldon “Turbulence” Campbell held at City Sports Centre in the capital on Friday. The event featured scores of dancehall artistes drawn from more than 20 ghettos who took turns to entertain the packed City Sports Centre. After…
HARARE – Turf wars in Mutare between prominent music promoter Esau Mupfumi’s Pick ‘n’ Save and Murapa Tavern owned by Zimbabwe and Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Willard Katsande, have sucked in musicians Alick Macheso and Suluman Chimbetu. Murapa Tavern, hosts National Arts Merit Award (Nama) winner Chimbetu tonight, and claims Mupfumi is hell-bent on snuffing out…
BULAWAYO – Women In Theatre (WIT) have lined up a performance of a play titled Song of a Woman at the National Gallery in Bulawayo tomorrow as part of the commemorations of the on-going 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. The Bulawayo-based WIT project is a partnership between Amakhosi Academy and Nhimbe Trust. Project…
HARARE – Gospel star Charles Charamba and poet-cum-musician Albert Nyathi have been included in a new seven-member Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) board voted into office on Tuesday. The two popular artistes will be joined by Joyce Simeti, Bob Nyabinde, First Farai, Metro Studios proprietor Emion Sibindi and Borniface Manyonganise. Only outgoing chairperson Nyathi, gospel…
HARARE – Thirty students from the National Art Gallery’s School of Visual Arts and Design began their year-end exhibition of selected artworks yesterday. The exhibition titled Green Shoots, features students from both levels of the arts school’s two-year programme. It includes artworks from various genres of visual arts such as painting, print-making, drawing, photography and…
HARARE – Reigning Miss Carnival Dananai Chipunza will represent Zimbabwe at the Miss Tourism International World Pageant that begins in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The lively Chipunza, who won the inaugural Miss Carnival in May this year, said she had been working hard on her fitness and grooming in preparation for the event…
HARARE – Jamaican dancehall star Turbulence will present his maiden show in Harare tonight at City Sports Centre where he will share the stage with over 25 top Zimbabwean dancehall artistes. Local artistes in tonight’s line-up include Lady Squanda, Ricky Fire, Guspy Warrior, Tha Godfatha Templeman and Garry B. Turbulence sings one of his tracks…
