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Zakifo Music Festival Early Bird Specials
Zakifo Music Festival Early Bird Specials
Blue Lagoon Beach, Durban: 26, 27 and 28 May 2017
The third annual Zakifo Music Festival, Durban features one of the most multi-genre global music line-ups ever gathered together in one festival programme boasting over 30 of the finest international music-makers from UK, Jamaica, USA, Belgium, France, Niger, Congo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa, which comes to Durban to the new festival site, Blue Lagoon Beach from 26 - 28 May.
This super-festival will take place at Durban's Blue Lagoon beach on the promenade, with huge stages, a cultural area, food carts and stalls, craft beer bars, local traders and interactive installation art exhibits.
The sea breeze and crashing waves will provide the backdrop this year for the astonishing musical line up which includes Damian Marley (USA/ Jamaican reggae artist and youngest son of reggae musician Bob Marley); Birdy Nam Nam (DJ crew from France); Ray Phiri (respected South African jazz, fusion and mbaqanga musician); Petite Noir (Belgian / South African singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer); Bongeziwe Mabandla (singer / song writer, guitarist and two time SAMA nominee known for his blend of urban-African folk); Thandiswa Mazwai (socially-conscious musician who incorporates mbaganga, reggae, traditional Xhosa rhythms, kwaito, jazz and funk into her music); Nova Twins (urban punk London duo - Amy Love: vocals, guitar and Georgia South: bass, backing vocals);
Bombino (an internationally acclaimed Tuareg guitarist and singer-songwriter from Agadez, Niger); Lu Dlamini (Durban singer song-writer); Baloji (Belgian rapper, MC and hip hop artist of Congolese origin); Tiggs Da Author (rapper, singer, songwriter and producer from South London - via Tanzania); Jobie Clarke (AKA Ntando Sithole- a Johannesburg based, classically trained afro-soul vocalist); and Jojo Abot (a Ghanaian artist expressing herself through music, film/photography, literature and performance art)
Tickets are on sale through Computicket. Early Bird options now available!