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.
When Olivia Rodrigo announced Daisy Chain Fields last week, an all-women festival in California with the proceeds going to women’s and girls’ charities, it…
This piece is about a campaign, a document, and a growing movement that could meaningfully shift how live music works in Cape Town. It’s…
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…
For all the scale and prestige that comes with the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF), what stayed with us most this year was…
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…
Cape Town’s live circuit has always had a particular kind of magic: a city where the stage can feel like a laboratory, where the…
In a music economy increasingly shaped by experiences rather than recordings, the most valuable move an artist can make is no longer just releasing…
It starts quietly: a few artists pulling their catalogues, a few more muttering about payouts and principles. But lately, the volume has risen. From…