What a wonderful Monday, 05 October 2009. It was like a too good to be true scenario. We got to Ko’spotong a bit strapped of time; found a hand full of artists were already congregated with a reasonable audience. At 20h30 everything was set-up and Leero was ready to kick-off. DJ Zweli worked the mood right before the first performance. We had an impeccable line-up, with various genres’ and the good amount of first timers on the Monday Blues stage.
Leero dusted off the stage with two songs; later Zweli from Joy of Jozi did a solo performance playing some blues, rock and afro grooves. Sliq Angel went on after that, to no surprise a great reaction from artists occurred when Shaun joined in on the drums, base guitarists and some back-up vocalists jumped on stage to join in. Sliq’s music is known and it was like they rehearsed plus the crowd loved it. Tumisani Dlamini aka Crocodile, Chester courageously sang a Zulu song about his travels around the world making a good impact with some dance moves… excellent.
There was a couple a jam sessions giving authenticity to the day, Nqobile is easy to remember, surprised the room with educated yet cultural melodies with limitless ranges. Russere is Zim national, played Mbire and sang those with good ears heard his amazing work. Sizwe Vena later blessed the stage with three songs, doing it with a full on band as well as back-up vocalists, Aviwe Damane carried it to the last.
We closed with back tracks, Mzantsi a raga hip hop soul act, DOC Tswana / English rap and Ntsikelolo Xhosa poetry over beats. Appeasing, the show ended, thanks to the crowd, artists, venue and the Melville community at large. See you on Monday live at Ko'spotong, 12 October!!
Leero dusted off the stage with two songs; later Zweli from Joy of Jozi did a solo performance playing some blues, rock and afro grooves. Sliq Angel went on after that, to no surprise a great reaction from artists occurred when Shaun joined in on the drums, base guitarists and some back-up vocalists jumped on stage to join in. Sliq’s music is known and it was like they rehearsed plus the crowd loved it. Tumisani Dlamini aka Crocodile, Chester courageously sang a Zulu song about his travels around the world making a good impact with some dance moves… excellent.
There was a couple a jam sessions giving authenticity to the day, Nqobile is easy to remember, surprised the room with educated yet cultural melodies with limitless ranges. Russere is Zim national, played Mbire and sang those with good ears heard his amazing work. Sizwe Vena later blessed the stage with three songs, doing it with a full on band as well as back-up vocalists, Aviwe Damane carried it to the last.
We closed with back tracks, Mzantsi a raga hip hop soul act, DOC Tswana / English rap and Ntsikelolo Xhosa poetry over beats. Appeasing, the show ended, thanks to the crowd, artists, venue and the Melville community at large. See you on Monday live at Ko'spotong, 12 October!!
No comments:
Post a Comment