MUSIC
See article about her trip back to Zimbabwe earlier this year by American Viola player NOKUTHULA NGWENYAMA in December 2002 issue of STRAD Magazine (it's under free previews)
Oliver
Mutukudzi
see pictures and hear some sounds at his new website
ZIMBABWE NATIONAL MUSICAMP yearly event usually in August
A TRIBUTE TO SIMON MASHOKO & SOME LINKS TO MBIRA MUSIC
ELASTIC
BAND
Zimbabwe's only Celtic Music Band
Jane
Nhamo: Finalist in the Berlin International Masterclass
and Competition, July 2001
Email from Stuttgart from Jane Nhamo, Zimbabwean Violinist studying with Radu Bozgan
KING BEE Blues Band
King Bee is a 3 piece blues band featuring Andy Milburn on lead guitar,
vocals, slide guitar & blues harp, with Sid Rogers on Bass & Neville
Mannington on Rhythm Guitar.
They set out to create an authentic & original blues sound with a
direct
emotional appeal and after some months working on their material, have
been
performing successfully to a very wide variety of audiences for almost
a
year.
From the start they established some basic ground rules. Keep it
simple and don’t play too loud. People should be able to talk without
shouting into each other’s ears. The arrangements are tight, but
with that
loose, improvised feel which lies at the heart of all true blues music.
Variety is essential, blues songs don’t have to all sound the same
and
always the vocals, the words, a direct appeal to the heart.
KING BEE "Harare's finest Blues Band.." AEL
@ ARTCAFE & IT
ArtCafe: Bath Road, Avondale
Saturday afternoons 12-4 every 2 weeks 16th February 2nd March etc
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IT Restaurant & Nightclub, at Kamfinsa, next to TM supermarket
every Saturday evening from 7 to 11pm
9 Feb, 16 Feb, 23 Feb etc
Both places are free entry, just come along have a drink or a meal
& enjoy the music, variety of sounds from slow blues to rock &
roll.
THE BIRSEN STRING LIBRARY
The late Leo Birsen, who was a notable local violinist and teacher, whom
many will remember with affection, died in Harare in 1992. In 1996 The
Leo
Birsen Trust established, in his memory, an annual String Competition
(won
last October by by Jane Nhamo and in 1999 by Quinten Smit).
The Leo Birsen Trust is now making his extensive library of string
sheet music available for lending to anyone interested: performer, teacher,
student or listener. The collection includes 250 pieces for violin and
piano, some 50 violin sonatas, 40 concertos, studies and teaching music,
works for viola and ‘cello and a considerable quantity of chamber
music:
piano trios and quartets, string quartets, quintets, sextets and other
ensembles.
This music, which is in good condition, is now housed with the Harare
City Orchestra’s orchestral library at Mr. Auchterlonie’s rooms
at 2, Josiah
Tongogara Avenue. If you are interested, please contact Jim Peto, 84
McChlery
Avenue, Eastlea. Tel: 776165. E-mail jimpeto@africaonline.co.zw
Borrowers of this music are invited to make a small donation towards its
upkeep: $10 per single item, or $20 per album or collection.
