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Annual Jazz Jol Fundraiser
Annual Jazz Jol Fundraiser
The 29th Jazz Jol fundraiser featuring a host of local and national talent is set for Friday, October 27 at the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
This year's popular annual music event features a variety of talented musicians including Sweet Concept (a UKZN Alumni Band), UKZN Vocal Group and UKZN's Big Band along with a selection of students taking to the stage in an evening tailor-made for lovers of jazz and popular music.
"The Jazz Jol was not only started, all those years ago, as an event for music-lovers but also in an endeavour to raise funds for the Ronnie Mandosela Scholarship," explains lecturer Neil Gonsalves. "The Scholarship provides bursaries for deserving UKZN music students from disadvantged backgrounds, as well as helps to fund students' travel visas for overseas trips, and national travel and accommodation to the National Youth Jazz Festival in Grahamstown and other educational festivals, workshops and conferences. This issue of mobility, of getting around and sharing ideas and networking is key to a musician's success in the future. Through mobility the musicians are able to exchange knowledge and gain important experience both nationally and internationally."
"We are particularly pleased to welcome Sweet Concept to this year's Jazz Jol," enthuses Gonsalves.
Certainly a major drawcard to the Jazz Jol is the appearance of the UKZN Big Band 2017 directed by Burton Naidoo, and featuring students from UKZN. The band this year focuses on House Music - and unusual approach to electronic music that started taking the world by storm in the 1980s. House Music, is characterised by it's 'four to the floor', groove and minimalistic harmonic and melodic sequences. The UKZN Big Band House Performance will focus more on African House Music such as Micasa, Davido and Black Coffee and the repertoire features arrangements by UKZN Students Phumlani Mtiti, Riley Giandhari, and Sinalo Zulu.
Tickets will be available at the door at R120, pensioners R80 and students R60.
For more information contact Thulile Zama on 031 - 260 3385 or email Zamat1@ukzn.ac.za