2008-07-01 12:21:03 - Zimbabwe international music legend, Oliver Mtukudzi and Mbira maestro, Chiwoniso Maraire join up for a VIP Access music concert on 20 July at the Bassline in Newtown.

This will be Oliver Mtukudzi's very last performance in Johannesburg just before he jets off for a three month international tour of the US. On the other hand, Chiwoniso Maraire, born to an Mbira guru - Dumisani will be performing for the first time after her successful European tour that saw her tour countries like German, Belgium and the UK.

This is a show like you have never seen before. Many a time, you see Oliver Mtukudzi or Chiwoniso on stage but never get the up-close and personal drift. The two musicians perform solo for the first time together - mirroring the old in Tuku and the young in Chiwoniso. With his acoustic and drums, fans will get to see the new side of Tuku while Chiwoniso takes us back to the roots, the history of the mbira instrument.

Both are well accomplished artist with a flair for professionalism. They were both born in music and continue to respect the profession that has carried them through generations.

The show is promoted by Zim Cafe, a music Promotions Company registered in South Africa. Zim Cafe concentrates on exotic African music and promotes musicians of high caliber. This year alone, Zim Cafe has signed a three gig contract with Oliver Mtukudzi which will see Tuku perform at different venues across Gauteng
Zim Cafe has also just signed as the sole agents for Chiwoniso Maraire for the South African territory. It is one of the fastest growing promotions companies in Southern Africa.

Show Date: 20 July 2008

Place: Bassline - 10 Henry Nxumalo Street, Newtown

Tickets: www.computicket.com

Ticket price: R109

Gates open: 7pm

Show starts: 8pm

About Tuku:

Tuku's career has spanned twenty six years and including his latest hit album TSIVO released in November 2003, he has composed forty six original albums (nearly all of them best-sellers). But it is his dedication to the live music scene in Zimbabwe - continually playing to enthusiastic audiences in even the remotest parts of the country - that has earned him the place in people's hearts that he holds today. In the past six years, his popularity has risen extensively in the Southern African region and together with his band The Black Spirits, he regularly ventures across borders into South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Malawi, Zambia and Mocambique.

Source: www.tukumusic.com


About Chiwoniso:
Chiwoniso Maraire was born in Olympia, Washington in 1976. Her father, ethnomusicologist Dumisani Maraire, taught marimba and mbira in America between 1972 and 1990, and was a renowned stage performer along with her mother, Linda Nemarundwe Maraire.'Musical instruments were a core element of my childhood. By the age of four I was playing mbira; 'Tichazomuona', my first recording with my parents, was released when I was nine' remembers Chiwoniso.

By the age of 11 she was performing with Dumi & Minanzi 3, her father's marimba band based in Seattle, and by 14 she was performing mbira and singing in the family quartet Mhuri yaMaraire along with her sister Tawona, brother Ziyanai and their father.



Source: www.chiwoniso.com


Submitted by Budiriro Moyo

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