This weekend Sherwood Golf Club is bringing revellers a one of a kind event. The “Jazz & Soul Music Festival”. Running from the Friday the 26th of May to Sunday the 28th, the festival will bring together some of the very best musicians in Zimbabwe. It will not only be a musical feast for jazz and soul lovers but they’re set to be open markets, exhibitions and kids games.
Sherwood Golf Club has a variety of local and international acts who are going to jazz us up and bring the soul. Tickets are set to be sold at the gate and they’ll be $10 for each day. Friday performances will kick off at 6 pm, while on Saturday and Sunday the festival will run from 2 pm.
Artists line up:
Friday 26 May
Xtra Mile
Victor Kunonga
Mbeu
Saturday 27 May
Xtra Mile
Benari Note
IYF – Koreans
Jeys Marabini
Selmor Mtukudzi
Sunday 28 May
Black Site
Wa Chari (Mutare)
Louis Mhlanga (South Africa)
Diana Samkange
The main act will be hitting the stage at 7 pm with the event concluding close to midnight on Day 1 & 2! The festival organisers believe in fostering a relationship between rising and established artists and they feel the art space needs more festivals.
There is a need to increase the number of festivals in Zimbabwe. There was this sense of the HIFA gap not being filled. There is also a need to bring emerging artists together with renowned artists locally and regionally. What better time than Africa Day to bring Zimbabwean together in an all inclusive festival. The Mabelreign community where Sherwood Golf Course becomes a prime location where the community can be entertained whilst bringing the rest of Harare and hopefully with time the whole nation into our community.
The Jazz and Soul Music Festival had its curtain raiser event yesterday as Sherwood Golf Club hosted music, poetry and dance acts in honour of Africa Day. People were treated to the the very best of percussion instruments and mbira from talented acts such as Hope Masike and Vee Mhofu. While dance acts like Undefined Dancers left the audience in awe and poets like Sox the Poet and Afro Poetic dazzled with words. The night was rounded off with a performance by Nutty O.
Sherwood Golf Club is located at 9 Notely Road, in Harare’s Mabelreign suburb. Tickets aren’t being presold but will be available at the venue.
