FOLKLORE FESTIVAL REPRISE | CAPE TOWN 20 & 21 SEPTEMBER | ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT
THE THIRD EDITION OF THE FOLKLORE FESTIVAL RETURNS WITH A DIVERSE LINE-UP OF STORYTELLERS IN 3 CITIES, OVER 30 DAYS, CONTEMPLATING 30 YEARS OF FREEDOM
The Folklore Festival is a multi-disciplinary culture and heritage festival that seeks to build a community that shares, documents and archives our Folklore in diverse art-forms. What is Folklore? The Definition: Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. Inclusive of oral traditions such as tales, myths, legends, proverbs, poems, jokes, and rituals, tales, celebrations, dance and more.
The festival is a time for the ‘Folklore Community (www.folklore.community ) to come together to share in culture, creativity and heritage. To have those resonant conversations, to hold space for our shared values and to contribute to nation-building. It is founded and curated by ‘Indelible Storyteller, Singer-Songwriter & Creative Entrepreneur Pilani Bubu (www.pilanibubu.com )
In the theme of this year’s biggest conversation for the greater South African audience, the festival is hosting a series of shows as #WETHEFOLK. What you can expect is a rich line-up of Artivists and Storytellers: from authors, filmmakers, thespians, oral traditionalists, poets, vinyl selectors, sound curators and musicians.
“The goal this year is to build and grow our community by creating intimate bonding moment, giving deeper focus to the multiple disciplines of art showcased at our festival. As well as deepening the impact, intention, and meaningful work presented by our storytellers and collaborators. The main festival in Johannesburg & the reprise in Cape Town comes as a celebration of the work we have done and the community we have invested in.” – says Pilani Bubu | The founder of the Folklore Festival
The festival year on year closes with a REPRISE. This year’s Folklore Festival Reprise will be held in Cape Town/ What is the definition of a reprise: “in music, a reprise is the repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition”
The Folklore Festival Reprise to be hosted at Gorgeous George’s Pink Room, in Cape Town features…
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MORENA LERABA, KUJENGA, DIGITAL SANGOMA, CHOSI, SIFISO KHANYILE FILMS: UPRIZE & A NEW COUNTRY, with DJ MIGHTY AND ATIYYAH KHAN (EL CORAZON)
Our Friday night headliners are Kujenga, a seven piece Black improvised music outfit from Cape Town, Kujenga follows on from the rich history of Black band music in South Africa, with the young ensemble representing the present & future for this historic sound. The band released their debut album 'Nationality' in 2019 and their sophomore album 'In The Wake' in 2024.
Supported by Digital Sangoma - an independent Afro indie Electronic Music Producer, DJ, and Performer from sunny Cape Town, South Africa. His music is a hypnotic blend of traditional chants, Afro, indie, and Alternative Dance, with an electric dash of Afro House and groovy guitar riffs, all wrapped up in soulful vocals.
Our Saturday headliner is Morena Leraba is a Lesotho-born singer and rapper. He mainly uses traditional Sesotho lyrics and combines them with electro, afro house and Hip hop. His lyrics are deeply rooted in Lesotho's traditional music, poetry, and its sub-genre, famo. Morena Leraba grew up in the village of Ha-Mojela in Lesotho. He got exposed to a variety of music such as kwaito and the traditional music of Lesotho including the alternative and rock music.
Supported by Chosi, who hails from the dusty streets of KwaZakhele Township in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. She describes her sound as a soulful blend of jazz nesingqi. Her influences are her family’s church - the Zion church. She comes from a musical family, from choral to gospel music. She realised her artistry when she started writing poetry to help make sense of the socio-political climate she was in at the time. From poetry, she wrote songs.
Both nights, begin with a film screenings and curated DJ sets by Sifiso Khanyile featuring DJ Mighty and Atiyyah Khan (El Corazon)
Sifiso Khanyile is a Producer/ Director of Anaphora Films. He has works as writer, archive researcher and has worked as a content producer on SABC shows such as Imagine Afrika, Zooming In on Men,Talk SA and Hatch. After studying, Khanyile directed Spiderman and Romeo(2008), a ground breaking short documentary about the thrills and dangers of train surfing on the notorious Metro rail Soweto line. The film was screened at numerous local and international festivals and shown on BBC and Sechuan TV(China). Khanyile's first feature documentary directorial credits include the acclaimed Uprize! (2017) and A New Country (2020).
Atiyyah Khan is a journalist, DJ, archivist and cratedigger from Johannesburg, based in Cape Town. Her love for music was nurtured through years of writing about South African sounds and learning through listening. She started collecting records more seriously when co-founding music collective Future Nostalgia in 2013, with a few other music lovers, as a way to come together and listen. The collective is a platform to bring ‘collectors, selectors, deejays, and diggers’ together and has hosted events all over South Africa. Her sets as DJ El Corazon (the heart) in Future Nostalgia, digs deep into her record collection to weave in sounds including jazz, African funk, Latin groove, middle-eastern rhythms, dub, reggae, gnawa, cumbia, taarab, soul, funk and beyond. Her sets explore music beyond boundaries and form connections that conjure up a curiosity in the possibility of sound.
DJ Mighty is a prolific vinyl collector and DJ with a very broad and creative selection – from House to Jazz to Funk to Afro. He has been spinning records for over a decade in clubs and at events. Mighty has played at some of Southern Africa’s most prominent music festivals, including the Bushfire Festival(Swaziland), Holi One Festival (Cape and Johannesburg), Red Bull Electronic Music Festival (Cape Town) and Rocking the Daisies (Western Cape). DJ Mighty only spins vinyl. His unique psychedelic and voodoo-like performances have been known to move crowds wherever he plays.
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TICKETS
Early Bird and Student Ticket at R180 | At the door at R200 | Available on Quicket
Friday 20 September
https://qkt.io/FolkloreFestival2024RepriseCapeTown20September
Saturday 21 September
https://qkt.io/FolkloreFestival2024RepriseCapeTown21September
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