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From wine tasting in Joburg to beach parties and outdoor films, here’s a list of things to do this festive season
The second Okavango Delta Music Festival was a dusty, distant affair writes Derek Davey
As Mercury left retrograde and South Africa ushered in women’s month, Apple Music released an all-genre list to celebrate the women with the highest streams. At the top of the list is 24-year-old songstress Shekhinah. She sits above Lady Zamar, Karen Zoid, Lebo Sekgobela, newcomer Simmy, Karlien van Jaarsveld, Zonke Dikana, Amanda Black, Juanita du […]
Big events have their attractions but niche festivals, which are less financially risky, are drawing crowds
Festivals are gaining popularity and momentum across Southern Africa and expanding even further to showcase African arts.
Think you can escape white privilege and racism with a night out with friends? Think again, says Ra’eesa Pather.
The festival’s director has vowed that this lively celebration of East African music will be back bigger and stronger in 2017.
Interested in new music, art and film, and looking for something to do this Easter? Go to the fifth Jammin ‘n Ting festival at Naledi village.
If God is a DJ, according to Faithless and everyone wants to be a DJ, says Paul van Dyk; and if Paris Hilton thinks she’s a DJ – then God help us all.
Around 20 000 people descended on the dusty, rocking ‘n rolling festival this year. Themed SweetThing, we ask people about their sweetest thing at Oppi.
Party animal Michael Leslie loves music festivals and is the national communications manager for Red Bull South Africa.
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/ 19 January 2010
Up the Creek music festival takes place at the beginning of February, and it has gained a reputation as one of the more civilised events of its kind.
Despite itself, the Opppikoppi music festival is not a white, Afrikaans festival.
Lloyd Gedye and Lisa Skinner caught some international superstars in Gauteng last weekend.
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/ 6 September 2008
Matthew Krouse finds out what is going down at this year’s Jazz on the Lake at Zoo Lake from Johannesburg’s Bassline jazz club owner, Brad Holmes.
An estimated 10 000 people travelled to Northam in the Limpopo province this past weekend for the 14th edition of the Oppikoppi music festival.
Lloyd Gedye catches up with the Dutch muso
who can’t get enough of South Africa
Grappling with instability is nothing new to organisers, audiences and performers at cultural events in Lebanon.
Germany’s prestigious Bayreuth Festival, the world’s most famous summer music festival, is set to enter the 21st century with its first-ever webcast.
Poet-singer Leonard Cohen on Tuesday night won over the Montreux Jazz Festival with his smooth deep voice and dry humour.
Latvia lets loose every five years with a huge songfest that long powered its drive for freedom under decades of Moscow-led rule.
A music festival with heavy metal, punk and hip-hop might seem like an unusual place to get baptised, but Creation is a festival with strict rules.
Founder of the Joy of Jazz festival Peter Tladi tells
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya how it all began
The Easter weekend promises to be a busy one for lovers of live music, with festivals offering diverse line-ups around the country.
The Unyazi 2 Festival takes the latest in local and international sound exploration on the road, writes Lloyd Gedye.