Vusi Mahlasela’s mellifluous world music hybrid has earned him an international reputation as an acoustic bard of rare poetic repute.
In <em>Some Dance To Remember Some Dance To Forget</em>, Sanell Aggenbach offers a wry yet whimsical tribute to South Africa.
Over the past few years the digital punk poster boy Haezer has been converting party animals from Oppikoppi to Australia.
For the past fifteen years Brasse Vannie Kaap have sidestepped linguistic stereotypes to redeem Afrikaans as a meaningful socio-political signifier.
Performance art might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but when it’s good, it makes a statement.
You can’t really ignore the fact that Neil Diamond is one music’s biggest stars.
South African photographer Jodi Bieber has recently been in the limelight after she clinched the 2010 World Press Photo award.
Designer Drugs DJ and producer Michael Vincent Patrick slams together a Molotov cocktail of beats.
The pulse of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival was felt in this restless interplay between the individual ego and the collective impulse.
Up and coming Mother City songbird Lisa Bauer favours a fresh approach to interpreting jazz standards at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival this weekend.
Acclaimed Berlin-based illustrator and figurative painter Olaf Hajek presents his first exhibition in Africa.
The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is finally here.
It’s Esperanza Spalding’s uncanny instrumental chops and multi-lingual siren call that had <i>Variety</i> hailing her as “The ‘IT’ girl of Jazz”.
Despite having performed with a roll call of South African jazz luminaries over the past three decades, Dave Ledbetter seldom hits the headlines.
"What isn’t jazz?" you might well ask when Gazelle surf through their genre-defying grooves at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival this weekend.
These days, there are plenty of satin-bedecked boobs jiggling around the jazz circuit, but plenty of women have found their own voice.
Rashid Lombard isn’t your average musical festival director.
SA’s premier trumpeter has defied genres all his life but reverts to great jazz standards at this year’s Cape Town International Jazz Fest.
Boasting an even spread of international and home-grown heroes alongside a roll call of rising stars, this jazz festival sidesteps generic snobbery.
As part of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, workshops will be held that aim to further the development of the music and arts industry.
The Toffie Pop Culture Festival is three day whirlwind of exhibitions, workshops, presentations and partying.
From soulful to experimental, and everything in between — Cape audiences are spoilt for choice.
The web may is a twitter about Die Antwoord re-animating the stage where they kick started their ‘Zef’ rap revolution.
During the 1960s young self-taught black photographer, Ernest Cole created one of the most harrowing records of life under apartheid.
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/ 25 February 2011
Legendary artist, writer and editor, Sue Williamson returns with her first solo exhibition in Cape Town in a number of years.
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/ 25 February 2011
Sedate supper club circuit or clamourous music festival?
From Paul Kruger to Che Guevara, Thabo Mbeki to the Taliban, designer stubble to lefty bristles, beards have always been potent containers of meaning.
Black Coffee and Spoek Mathambo spearhead an impressive line-up of musical creatives performing at the 2011 Design Indaba Party.
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/ 3 February 2011
A leather-clad, flamethrower-wielding ‘ubermensch’ baritones his way through ominous orations of sex, death and cannibalism over grinding alt. metal guitars skewered with industrial drum rhythms and techno electro-punk synths.
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/ 28 January 2011
Themes of place and identity are explored in two very different exhibitions.
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/ 28 January 2011
Thandiswa Mazwai and Robin Auld share the spotlight this week.