“WHEN the guitar speaks with traditional memory, even lunch must pause to listen.” This famous quote came to its realisation last Saturday when SaMasamba ignited Gava’s Restaurant in Belgravia in the ...

MBIRA musician Shiella Chasara, nee Ndakaziwa, is readying herself for the release of her third album and has in the past ...

Ain't no lie; ain't no shade. The past 12 months of dance music contained some both strange and exciting moments. One of the biggest moments in fact began in the last few days of 2024, when Anyma ...

The Midlands Marimba Braai Festival last weekend lived to its billing after it brought together the Gweru community through a fun day filled with a combination of food, mbira and marimba music.

Our staff's favorite dance albums from the year that was. Once again and as always, the dance albums released in 2025 served as a reminder of the genre’s vastness. But while on the surface bass might ...

Leslie Harris has missed most milestones in his daughter's life while serving a decades-long sentence in Louisiana for armed robbery and is unlikely to get out before her prom, her graduation and ...

The documentary Mbira Talks, about a Zimbabwean-Canadian musician’s relationship with an instrument once banned during colonization, took a long time to make. We know this because Moyo Rainos Mutamba ...

The Ukrainian Hall in Strathcona hosted VanAfrica: A Celebration of Africa in Vancouver featuring a wide range of African music from across Ghana, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Zimbabwe and Cuba. Organized ...

"Dance, dance… otherwise we are lost." This oft-cited phrase by Pina Bausch encapsulates not only the urgency of movement, but its capacity to reveal space itself. In her choreographies, space is ...

Erica Azim has long studied and performed with Shona artists. Her nonprofit’s sent over $1.6M to Zimbabwean musicians and instrument makers. Erica Azim has spent decades studying and performing with ...