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RANDY CRAWFORD & JOE SAMPLE and LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO TO HEADLINE
The 8th Annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival, acknowledged as the biggest event on the African continent, is the one weekend of the year when music lovers from all over South Africa and abroad descend on Cape Town for the music event that is not to be missed. The 8th annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival takes place on Friday 30th and Saturday 31st March at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC).
Affectionately known as Africa’s Grandest Gathering, this multi-stage event enables its organisers, espAFRIKA, to promote all genres within jazz and jazz-related performances, bringing together a dazzling bill of 40 local and international artists performing in five different venues to a diverse audience. The annual free Community Concert takes place on 29th March on Greenmarket Square.
With the Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2007 now only two months away, espAfrika has released the first list of artists appearing at the 2007 jazz festival.
Artists already confirmed include soul-jazz diva Randy Crawford, jazz legend Joe Sample, South Africa's own world famous vocal group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Sibongile Khumalo and Jack DeJohnette, Intercontinental with Danilo Perez, Jerome Harris, Byron Wallen and Jason Yarde, The Caribbean Jazz Project feat. Paquito D’Rivera, Dave Samuels and Andy Narell, Vivid Afrika, Concord Nkabinde, Esther Miller feat. special guest Jeremy Pelt, Bev Scott-Brown, Bruce Muirhead Quartet, Fethi Tabet, Shannon Mowday, Lira, Diego Amador, Standard Bank National Youth Jazz band, Rudmentals, Nils Landgren, Hilton Schilder, Bheki Khoza, Lee Konitz quartet, Stimela, Tortured Soul and Gerri Allen Trio feat. Jimmy Cobb.
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