Caravan World Rhythms and the Sunshine Coast Jazz and Entertainment Society present a Zimbabwean dance party on Saturday night in Roberts Creek.
The party starts at 9 p.m. at the hall with ZimbaMoto featuring Kurai Mubaiwa and special guest dancers Kesseke Yeo and Sacha Belle.
Vancouver-based ZimbaMoto is a collective Afro-fusion band with a range from traditional Shona music to contemporary African and western rhythms. They return to the Coast a year after presenting one of the most engaging and dance-inducing concerts of 2009 at the hall.
The band is comprised of talented world musicians from diverse musical backgrounds. Band-leader 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.
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. Kurai and Pasi will be wearing traditional costumes of ostrich feather head dress, 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.
Joining ZimbaMoto again this year is the acrobatic and hugely-talented dancer from West Africa, Yeo, who energizes audiences as much as displays incredible feats of African dancing. The Sunshine Coast's Belle will also show off her dance moves on stage.
Tickets are $20, available at Gaia's Fair Trade Gifts, MELOmania and WindSong Gallery.
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