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Zakifo Musik Festival
Zakifo Musik Festival
Surrounding the festival, there will be a host of satellite fringe events, workshops, couch-sessions, industry engagements and jams, including a closing concert at the Rainbow on Sunday 29 May 2016.
There is an early-bird special offer of a weekend pass for just R200, running from 6 to 15 April 2016. By buying an early-bird or a full-weekend pre-sale, one will qualify to enter Zakifo's competition to win a trip to Reunion Island, to attend sister festival Sakifo, the week following Zakifo! Terms and conditions apply.
This year Zakifo has hand-picked a phenomenal array of global music-makers to create a watershed programme for Durban. Following on from the precedent set last year, the focus on strong female artists continues at the festival this year - Zakifo 2016 will be staging some of ßthe most outspoken, innovative, boundary-defying women performers active in the global music industry today, such as: 27 year-old Canadian singer Cold Specks, whose innovative music has been described as doom-soul; EstereDalton has been compared to the likes of Erykah Badu and is a songwriter and beat-maker, hailing from New Zealandwho plays/records a mixture of bass, synth, drums, guitar, vocal harmonies, keyboard, whistles, claps and kazoo; Inna Bocoum, known on stage as Inna Modja, is a genre-shifting Malian singer / rapper and model. Maya Kamaty has been dubbed the new, hypnotic voice of Reunion's modern Maloya and Sega traditions.
For more information, and for the detailed programme, visit https://www.zakifo.com; or email zakifomusicfestival@gmail.com or ph 031- 332 0119. Zakifo Muzik Festival, Durban is active across social media platforms - for regular updates, follow / like the festival on Facebook.