The Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) has announced their Rosies Stage line-up and it’s going to be rocking at the 21st edition of “Africa’s Grandest Gathering”.
Artists appearing on the Rosies Stage include Joel Ross of USA, Abdullah Ibrahim of South Africa, KWETU TRIO featuring Aaron Rimbui, Herbie Tsoaeli and Ayanda Sikade of Kenya/South Africa, Mandisi Dyantyis of South Africa, Elementaal from India/South Africa and South Africa’s Nduduzo Makhathini, among others.
The organisers said the Rosies Stage live performances are available at R20 per performance, in addition to a CTIJF festival ticket, and allows Festinos an exclusive opportunity to enjoy stars from the festival’s stellar line-up.
The CTIJF is set to take place on March 27 and 28 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC).
Ross, the most thrilling new vibraphonist in America, grew up in Chicago, where he began playing drums at church from a young age.
TRUMPET SHALL SOUND: Mandisi Dyantyis. Picture: Jeffery Abrahams.
Following training with the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet at the University of the Pacific, he went on to create bands ranging from quartets to large ensembles.
Kenyan-born Rimbui is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, drummer, bandleader, producer, and composer.
In 2017, he joined South African jazz icons Herbie Tsoaeli on bass and Ayanda Sikade on drums to create the KWETU TRIO.
DISTINGUISHED: Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim. Picture: Supplied.
Ibrahim, South Africa’s most distinguished pianist and a world-respected master musician, is an icon of the resistance movement, and his song Manenberg became an unofficial national anthem for black South Africans under apartheid.
Elementaal is a coming together of two of the most indomitable forces in World percussion today, with Indian musicians Ranjit Barot and Tau* Qureshi.
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Their upcoming performance will further explore the crossover elements of jazz and indigenous African and Indian sounds and features progressive pianist Kyle Shepherd as part of the band and India child prodigy and bamboo flautist Amith Nadiq.
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