Aaron Peters grew up on stories about his late grandfather, who casually played keyboards in a few bands and worked house parties “sometimes until the early hours of the morning” That picture, a band holding a room while people move, sits under Quarterly Levitation, the new seasonal dance series Peters launches at Colorbox Studios this Sunday, 25 October.
When Athenkosi Cetyana, better known by his stage name Internet Athi, left tech for music, he did not picture himself as a singer taking…
Glastonfurry is comfortably the loudest thing anyone in Cape Town will do for stray cats and dogs all year. On Heritage Day, the fundraiser…
Feastival’s Cabo Women’s Day edition served up a good night of music. What stayed with us was how safe it felt, and in Cape…
Scenes don’t survive on venues and streaming numbers alone. They survive on transmission, one player putting something into the hands of the next, over…
The best Cape Town music events don’t just happen to you. Someone books the room, talks the venue round, pays the sound engineer and…
We were at Youngblood on the last Friday of June, in a room thick with familiar faces, when espAfrika set out what the Cape…
Cape Town doesn’t get a steady stream of international tours. It comes in waves. A few quiet months. Then suddenly: a cluster. A venue…
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…
