AS the month of March winds down, it is a time to reflect on the numerous events held across the country celebrating Women’s Month. Among these, a standout evening took place earlier in the month at ...

Pops was born on 10 December 1949 in Benoni, Gauteng A self-taught musical genius, he mastered a wide array of instruments, from kora and mbira to didgeridoo, mouth-bows, keyboards and guitar His ...

The documentary Mbira Talks, about a Zimbabwean-Canadian musician’s relationship with an instrument once banned during colonization, took a long time to make. We know this because Moyo Rainos Mutamba ...

PREPARATIONS are at an advanced stage for Bira Rembira to be held on September 27 at the Heritage Village in Harare. The event is billed to be the peak of the Mbira Month commemorations, which are ...

The TEXPO Hackathon is bringing together developers and creatives to tackle what they believe to be some of the most pressing challenges in the African creative sector. Participants are working oncool ...

“The Mboard I use...is patented, and we’re in negotiation to get it mass produced,” says Bill Wesley of the Array Orchestra. “The Sensor Array MIDI Controller Mboard will be like the musical Wii; ...

The mbira, or “thumb piano,” a traditional African instrument, is declining in popularity in big cities, a musician and seller of traditional musical instruments from Cape Town, South Africa told ...

Describing music can be the most fun part of a reviewer’s job, but some words have been used and abused to the point that they’ve become no-nos. One is “lush,” deployed when a finely appointed song ...

Harare, Zimbabwe – Dzivarasekwa, a nondescript township on the southwestern rims of Zimbabwe’s capital, copies the 1907 template of the first ghetto, Harari (now Mbare): grim, monotonous, matchbox ...

After their original collaboration in 2014, Swift said that working with Heap was a “fangirl” moment for her as she was “all I listened to in high school” When you purchase through links on our site, ...