CSA’s Music Mobility Fund selects 16 outstanding music tours
The fund offers musicians to undertake live music tours across southern Africa.
DURBAN’ smoldering all-female soul-jazz band, Heels Over Head, is part of a group of sixteen musicians which will be supported with ten tour projects in South Africa and six tour projects in the SADC region by the Concert SA Music Mobility Fund.
Initiated in 2013, this fund offers opportunities for South African musicians to undertake live music tours across southern Africa.
The Fund received over 900 applications and supported more than 160 tours through nine funding rounds.
More than 700 musicians have successfully toured across the nine South African provinces as well as ten other countries in southern Africa (Botswana, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia and Madagascar), playing more than 800 shows to over 50 000 people, spanning genres from folk to hip-hop, from gqom to punk-rock, from jazz to indigenous music.
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Former grant recipient Asanda Mqiki said: “The support from Concerts SA Mobility Fund gave my band and I the opportunity to tour and share my music with brand new audiences in a way that just would not have been possible otherwise. We were able to perform for the very first time as a full band outside of South Africa.”
“I was amazed at their response to the music and we are already in discussions to return. We also had the opportunity to collaborate with some other local musicians, and really appreciated what they brought to the music. The preparation ahead of the tour, and actually being on the road together for ten days, was also invaluable to us as a band, bringing us together and enabling the music to develop and mature.”
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