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The festival year on year closes with a REPRISE.What is the definition of a reprise: “in music, a reprise is the repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition”This year’s Folklore Festival Reprise will be held in Cape Town.
FOLKLORE FESTIVAL (REPRISE) - LINE UP ON 20 & 21SEPTEMBER IN CAPE TOWN AT THE GORGEOUS GEORGE PINK ROOM FROM 6PM TILL LATE,FEATURES…
MORENA LERABA, KUJENGA, DIGITAL SANGOMA, CHOSI, SIFISO KHANYILE FILMS: UPRIZE & A NEW COUNTRY, with DJ MIGHTY AND ATIYYAH KHAN (EL CORAZON)
Our Friday night headliner’s are Kujenga, a seven piece Black improvised music outfit from Cape Town, Kujenga follows on from the rich history of Black band music in South Africa, with the young ensemble representing the present & future for this historic sound.The band released their debut album 'Nationality' in 2019 and their sophomore album 'In The Wake' in 2024.
Supported by Digital Sangoma - an independent Afro indie Electronic Music Producer, DJ, and Performer from sunny Cape Town, South Africa. His music is a hypnotic blend of traditional chants, Afro, indie, and Alternative Dance, with an electric dash of Afro House and groovy guitar riffs, all wrapped up in soulful vocals.
Our Saturday headliner is Morena Leraba is aLesotho-born singer and rapper. He mainly uses traditional Sesotho lyrics and combines them with electro, afro house and Hip hop. His lyrics are deeply rooted in Lesotho's traditional music, poetry, and its sub-genre, famo. Morena Leraba grew up in the village of Ha-Mojela in Lesotho. He got exposed to a variety of music such as kwaito and the traditional music of Lesotho including the alternative and rock music.
Supported by Chosi, who hails from the dusty streets of KwaZakhele Township in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. She describes her sound as a soulful blend of jazz nesingqi. Her influences are her family’s church - the Zion church. She comes from a musical family, from choral to gospel music. She realised her artistry when she started writing poetry to help make sense of the socio-political climate she was in at the time. From poetry, she wrote songs.
Both nights, begin with a film screenings and curated DJ sets by Sifiso Khanyile featuring DJ Mighty and Atiyyah Khan (El Corazon)
Sifiso Khanyile is a Producer/ Director of Anaphora Films. He has works as writer, archive researcher and has worked as a content producer on SABC shows such as Imagine Afrika, Zooming In on Men,Talk SA and Hatch. After studying, Khanyile directed Spiderman and Romeo(2008), a ground breaking short documentary about the thrills and dangers of train surfing on the notorious Metro rail Soweto line. The film was screened at numerous local and international festivals and shown on BBC and Sechuan TV(China). Khanyile's first feature documentary directorial credits include the acclaimed Uprize! (2017) and A New Country (2020).
Atiyyah Khan (El Corazon) is a record collector, archivist, selector and arts journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She is the co-founding member of music and art collective, Future Nostalgia who runs regular gigs around the city.
DJ Mighty is a prolific vinyl collector and DJ with a very broad and creative selection - fromHouse to Jazz to Funk to Afro. He has been spinning records for over a decade in clubs and at events. Mighty has played at some of Southern Africa’s most prominent music festivals, including the Bushfire Festival(Swaziland), Holi One Festival (Cape and Johannesburg), Red Bull ElectronicMusic Festival (Cape Town) and Rocking the Daisies (Western Cape).
DJ Mighty only spins vinyl. His unique psychedelic and voodoo-like performances have been known to move crowds wherever he plays.
Ticket Links to Cape Town Below
Early Bird and Student Ticket at R180 | At the door at R200 | Available on Quicket
20 September
https://qkt.io/FolkloreFestival2024RepriseCapeTown20September
21 September
https://qkt.io/FolkloreFestival2024RepriseCapeTown21September
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Gorgeous George, 112 St Georges St, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa,Cape Town, Western Cape
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