Saturday 21 June 2014

Dizu Plaatjies & Ibuyambo International Concert List



Dizu (centre) live 2007.  © Songwrights Publishers

We have tried to re-construct the list of shows done by the group and by Dizu solo over the last few years. The list begins with the season at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town where Dizu's first solo album was launched with a stage production in 2003. It excludes all other shows in South Africa.

The pics below are taken from Dizu's profile in the Ethnoworld website. The list in incomplete but hopeful will be updated as we remember all the places where he appeared! There are a couple of duplications due to the info on that site being altered.
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Some more from 2010 in France, info from Maitemusic, thanks - 


2013

WOMAD UK - JULY
RAINFOREST WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL - JULY
SAUTI ZU BUSARA ZANZIBAR - APRIL


2014

Twiza Festival, Morocco, 2014 - OCTOBER




Standing ovation, Carnegie Hall, 1/11/2014 (c) Songwrights

2015

THAILAND - JANUARY
PENANG WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL - APRIL


Tuesday 11 February 2014

IBUYAMBO MEMBERS GIVE DEPARTED MEMBER A ROUSING SEND OFF

Dizu Plaatjies and members of the Ibuyambo Ensemble attended the funeral of PONKIE NGQULANA the former marimba player and percussionist of the group who started with them in 2004. Ponkie performed with Ibuyambo for about 3 years including their debut European shows in France.

The memorial to pay respects to the late member was organised by his family in Nyanga East and he was buried in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town on Saturday 8th February.




Ponkie (second from the right) here with some of the members during their visit to Reunion Island as part of the celebration of the freeing of slaves on the island.. All rights Songwrights Publishers (c)

The group gave him a send off with a Kudu horns chant song. They were joined by former student colleagues of Ponkie who knew him from the UCT College of Music.

Ponkie was a music teacher and former student of Dizu. He died in hospital last week after a short illness.


Saturday 11 January 2014

Dizu for prestige Africa Gig

On the 16th of February, Dizu Plaatjies and his Ibuyambo ensemble will take the stage around 10pm, at the prestigious Sauti za Busara festival in Stone Town, Zanzibar, off the east coast of Tanzania.

http://www.busaramusic.org/festivals/2014/

"I have been wanting to play the festival for some time" said Dizu. "I will take the 5 piece ensemble and put together a program featuring many of the vocal songs in our repertoire. I am looking forward to this as it will be a bit different to the recent shows where we used the xylophones".

Dizu will also take part in a, Meet the Artists discussion group on the Sunday afternoon, where members of the public can ask questions and interact with the Performers.



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Dizu and his group perform in Zanzibar with the support of MOUNTAIN RECORDS - http://www.releases.music-production-ideas.com