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Cape Town, Foreshore, CTICC: Cape Town International Jazz Festival
From Friday, 28 March 2008 -  08:00
To Saturday, 29 March 2008 - 17:00
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Africa's Grandest Gathering....

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is like a house with many rooms. Known as Africa’s Grandest Gathering, the festival will be in its ninth year as it brings together 40 jazz and jazz-related musical groups under its banner.

Over the last eight years, African bands have shared the festival’s five stages with their overseas counterparts on a 50/50 basis. This presentation of varied musical styles under one festival roof is what gives the Cape Town International Jazz Festival its uniqueness and is the main contributor to its growth in popularity.

The pre-festival concert has become a permanent feature of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival and is the festival’s commitment to community members who cannot make it to the paid sessions of the event.

This free concert takes place on Wednesday 26 March 2008 on vibey Green Market Square.

 

Guitarists to rock Cape jazz fest

4 March 2008

Looking at the additional 21 artists scheduled to perform at the 2008 Cape Town International Jazz Festival, there's no doubt that the event will go down as the "Festival of the Guitars". Six of the groups on the additional line-up are either guitar outfits or are led by guitarists.

Leading the pack is award-winning US guitarist Lee Ritenour, who is joined by jazz guitarist Lionel Loueke from Benin, South African-based Mozambican guitarist Jimmy Dludlu, Nigerian guitarist Kunle Ayo and US soul vocalist and guitarist Raul Midón.

Also appearing at the festival, taking place on 28 and 29 March, will be a string of South African guitarists performing with the Bebop Guitars, a US band constituted by members of the guitar faculty at Boston's Berklee College of Music.

The six guitar units join Zimbabwean guitarist and vocalist Oliver Mtukudzi, whose appearance at the festival was announced with the release of the initial 21 musicians in November.

The 21 additional musicians announced in February are:

  • African Inkspots (SA)
  • Beat Bag Bohemia (Mozambique/SA/Switzerland)
  • Bebop Guitars (US/SA)
  • Candy Dulfer (Netherlands)
  • Darius and the UKZN Rolling Reunion Band (SA)
  • Javon Jackson Super Band, featuring Jimmy Cobb, Jimmy Dludlu (SA)
  • Kolo Novo Movie Band (SA)
  • Kunle Ayo (Nigeria)
  • Lee Ritenour (US)
  • Lionel Loueke (Benin/US)
  • Mike Mainieri & Steps Ahead (SA)
  • Offshore featuring Buddy Wells and Marcus Wyatt, Raul Midón (US)
  • Quartet Babu, hip-hop group Skwatta Kamp (SA)
  • The Little Giants youth band (SA)
  • Rap group Timbuktu & Damn featuring Zoro (Sweden)
  • Vocalist Wanda Baloyi (SA)
  • Vicky Sampson (SA)
  • Zimology Quartet (SA)
Tickets are available from Computicket, with single day passes for the festival costing R299 and full weekend passes costing R440. As in previous years, there will be an extra fee of R25 for patrons wishing to attend concerts on the Rosies stage.

SAinfo reporter

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orhttp://www.capetownjazzfest.com/
Location: Cape Town International Convention Centre
Contact: http://www.capetownjazzfest.com/

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