Guitar war at Cape
Town Jazz Festival
By Sun News Publishing
Saturday,
March 8, 2008
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South Africa-based Nigerian musician Kunle Ayo will join
award-winning US guitarist Lee Ritenour, jazz guitarist Lionel
Loueke from Benin Republic, Mozambican guitarist Jimmy Dludlu
and US soul vocalist/guitarist Raul Mid as they thrill jazz
aficionados at this year’s Cape Town Jazz Festival coming
up between Friday, March 28 and Saturday, 29, 2008 in South
Africa.
Also on stage will be a string of South African guitarists
who will perform with the Bebop Guitars, a US band constituted
by members of the guitar faculty at Boston’s Berkley
College of Music, Massachusetts.
The 9th Cape Town International Jazz Festival which will take
place at the palatial Cape Town International Convention Centre
will bring together jazz and jazz-related musical groups from
all over the world.
Known as “Africa’s Grandest Gathering”,
the festival will feature the largest array and numbers of
artistes from various jazz music genres, including headliners
like Sergio Mendes, Gerald Alright and The Manhattans.
With a line-up of 40 jazz and jazz-related musical groups,
the festival is already being dubbed “Festival of the
Guitars” because six groups on the additional line-up
are guitar outfits or are led by guitarists.
Apart from non-stop music and entertainment, jazz lovers and
tourists to Cape Town, will revel in the city’s alluring
and scenic beauty, natural attractions, sunset boat cruises,
fine dining and value for money shopping.
Tour Brokers International, a Lagos-based tour company in
partnership with South African Tourism has put together a
minimum three night promotional package for Nigerian jazz
lovers and tourists to attend the festival as well as embark
on tours, which include flights, accommodation, transfers
and tickets for the entire show.
Other packages available to tourists are city tours, wine
land tours, boat cruise, shopping and beyond the actual entertainment,
the festival provides space for photographic exhibitions depicting
the lives and the work experience of South African and international
jazz musicians.
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