We were at Youngblood on the last Friday of June, in a room thick with familiar faces, when espAfrika set out what the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) becomes in 2027. Not a weekend. A month.
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There’s a version of event production that most of us have quietly accepted as the norm: book a venue, stack a lineup, open the…
If you’ve spent any time in Cape Town’s live music circles over the past few years, you’ve probably ended up at 35 Loop Street.…
For all the scale and prestige that comes with the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF), what stayed with us most this year was…
There’s a particular kind of artist South African house music produces every few years. Not always the loudest in the room, nor the name…
Cape Town loves music in a way that’s hard to argue with: you can feel it in the pockets of live performance that keep…
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In a music economy increasingly shaped by experiences rather than recordings, the most valuable move an artist can make is no longer just releasing…