Local band gets fans on their feet

Concerts SA is, once again, helping to promote the music of an up-and-coming South African band.

The company based in Braamfontein, is one that promotes South African music and local bands to audiences, not only within the country but on an international stage as well.

It does this by partnering with a number of venues, both local and international, and many in the Johannesburg CBD, to get some of South Africa’s favourite local, underground and well-known musicians playing to audiences across the continent.

Black South Easter is one of the bands touring through Concerts SA this season and they’re blowing through southern Africa, uplifting and revitalising souls with their authentic musical blend of progressive Afro-fusion – something new in local music.

The band is made up of four musically diverse members, namely Nhoza Sitsholwana on vocals; Jimi Curve on bass guitar; Gerry Mbowa on drums; and Dan Boshoff on guitar.

The quartet fuses elements of rocking reggae with funk, blues, jazz and world dance, and uses their infectious grooves and soaring melodies in their live shows to generate a powerful energy that transports their audience from the calm to the heart of the storm.

The band kicked off their tour with two dates in Johannesburg, first at the Afrikan Freedom Station on 17 June and then at Fête de la Musique, an exciting annual French music festival held in Newtown, on 18 June.

The band is set to perform in Maputo, among other destinations on their tour of Africa’s southern countries.

Keep an eye out – and an open ear – for Black South Easter, who will soon take over the local airwaves with their rare blend of music that gets fans on their feet.