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Alliance Francaise Harare has partnered Zimbabwe Jazz Community Trust to bring – Zimbabwe Jazz Nights to be done under Zimbabwe Online Music project.
The show will be launched on 17 July 2021 and is set to feature nine jazz acts to be performed fortnightly.
Top class jazz acts have been selected from a pool of creatives and are from Bulawayo, Gweru, Mutare and Harare.
Those to feature in the Jazz shows include Ngoma Ingoma, Dudu Manhenga, Prudence Katomeni Mbofana, Filbert Marova & Friends, Bradley Sibiya Quintet, Rute Mbangwa, Buhle, Steve Chikotie and The Travellers Band.
Due to exigencies associated with COVID 19, the Zimbabwe Jazz Community Trust could not host its traditional and weekly Jazz Concerts under the banner Back2Jazzics.
This new concept will fill the gap and provide Jazz fanatics the much needed entertainment.
This is a way of promoting adaption of Jazz artists and followers to online platforms in consideration that the Jazz music has been lagging behind ever since COVID-19 affected many communities and traditional venues.
Not many productions have surfaced during the past year and a half. Those that have come have been very few and rarely had been noticed online.
The narrative is set to change with the launch of a new online jazz show dubbed Zimbabwe Jazz Nights.
These shows will be streamed on Alliance Française de Harare and Ngoda TV Facebook pages and other broadcasting channels at 19:30 hours, fortnightly starting from 3rd week of July 2021.
The initiative is being supported by Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust in partnership with Delegation of the European Union to Zimbabwe.
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