Get ready to dance next Saturday in Roberts Creek.
Caravan World Rhythms and Sunshine Coast Jazz and Entertainment Society present a Zimbabwean dance party with ZimbaMoto and special Guest DJ Yum Yum on March 14 at 9 p.m. at the hall. Tickets are $20, available at Coast Books, MELOmania and WindSong Gallery. This is an adult-only event.
Vancouver-based ZimbaMoto is a collective Afro-fusion band with a range from traditional Shona music to contemporary African and western rhythms. The band is comprised of talented world musicians from diverse musical backgrounds. Band-leader Kurai Mubaiwa, born and raised in Zimbabwe, is an established world musician and music teacher. He has toured across Europe, West Africa, Southern Africa and Canada, playing alongside renowned international artists including Cesaria Evora, Andy Brown and Oliver Mtukudzi. Joining the band for the evening is Kurai's country-mate, Pasi Gunguwo, who performed together as part of FESO to sold-out houses at The Club in Gibsons.
Musically, the evening will begin with traditional music on the mbira, a melodic 25-key Zimbabwean thumb piano, that in Shona mythology is believed to connect the living with the ancestral spiritual world. Mubaiwa and Gunguwo will be wearing traditional costumes of ostrich feather headdress, loin skirt and leg shakers as they play the mbira and chekere percussion, singing in their native Shona language. The show soon livens up as the rest of the members of ZimbaMoto join together and take this cultural and musical journey to a further height fusing the unique acoustic sounds of the Zimbabwean marimbas and mbira with the pulse of the drums, the depth of the bass, rhythmical African guitar riffs and harmonic voices. DJ Yum Yum will be spinning global electronic beats to fill out the evening and create another great dance event at the hall. He impressed the audience at the recent Vanabaso concert show in January with his eclectic and lively mix of dance tunes from around the world.
This event is sponsored by Heather Miller and Leslee Cooper of Pacific Lifestyles, with the support of the B.C. Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
