Maputo What's on
7 October 2010. This concert is played by the Suisse band Imperial Tiger Orchestra, which performs its unique repertoire of Ethiopian music. This band performs pieces, which combine traditional and mo...
Maputo What's on
8 October 2010. The French-Mozambican Cultural Centre hosts the musical group Positivo, which uses music in the fight against AIDS discrimination in Mozambique and to promote the distribution of medic...
Nairobi What's on
Italian Piano Duo with Luciano Bellini and Antonella Vitelli
28 October 2010. This four hands piano concert is the 17th in the series organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in the Pianoforte and Friends series. The Italian Piano Duo pianists, Luciano Bel...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
22 September 2010. The Alliance Francaise presents a concert by one of west Africa's most famous musicians, Aly Keita.
Born in the Ivory Coast in 1969, Keita hails from a musical family and starte...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
27 August 2010. The Zimbabwe Society of Tanzania in conjunction with Bohemia presents Oliver Mtukudzi & the Black Spirits performing live at the Movenpick Royal Palm hotel. Supported by local acts Car...
Nairobi What's on
The A-ffair at Alliance Française
13 Aug 2010. This successful musical event first staged in April returns to the gardens of the Alliance Fran
Lagos What's on
30 July 2010. The Nigerian Afrobeat singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Lagbaja performs live on stage at his club Motherland in Lagos.
Known as the masked musician (Lagbaja is a Yoruba word mea...
Addis Ababa What's on
Azmari Tessema Eshete CD launch
20 Sept 2010. The Goethe-Institut presents a restored version of the historic records made by the acclaimed Ethiopian musician and vocalist Azmari Tessema Eshete in Berlin 100 years ago, the first eve...
Cape Town What's on
31 July 2010. This two-hour concert brings together Xhosa street slang and home-brewed hip-hop musicians, directed by Archie Sopazi. The programme includes a rich line-up of local rappers and singers...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Dhow Countries Music Academy open workshops
5-8 July 2010. The Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA) in partnershop with the Austrian Windhund collective plays host to a series of open music workshops. All welcome.
The DCMA in Zanzibar is a le...
Accra What's on
Hewale Sounds at Alliance Francaise
7 July 2010. The Ghanaian band Hewale Sounds presents its new album at Alliance Francaise. On this occasion the instrumental, vocal and drumming ensemble made up of 14 musicians performs its tradition...
Cape Town What's on
8 June-3 July 2010. This cabaret show is performed by award-winning artists Alistair Izobell and Loukmaan Adams, focusing on their repertoire of swing and jazz music with Straighten Up And Fly Right,...
