Mandla Mlangeni and the TRC @Gallery South

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About Mandla Mlangeni:

Mandla Mlangeni is involved in composing and performing music with several projects in South Africa. Notably the Tune Recreation Committee (New York Times Best Albums Of 2017, 2018 SAMA nominated Best Jazz Album) and The Amandla Freedom Ensemble (SAMA nominated 2015 Best Jazz Album). He has collaborated with the likes of Evan Parker (US), Susana Baca (Peru), Nils Lindgren (Sweden), David Murray (USA), Shabaka Hutchings (UK) and Paul van Kemenade (Netherlands).

“Music is a powerful tool that brings people together and is catalyst for engagement with a wider community at many a times do have anything in common but find the act of watching and watching live performances fulfilling,” reflects Johannesburg based trumpeter, Mandla Mlangeni, who is touring Cape Town in February 2023. The internationally renowned jazz musician is playing two gigs in Cape Town’s Southern Suburbs, at Gallery South in Muizenberg and one gig at Intravinous Wine Lounge and Bar in Cape Town’s CBD. The tour is to promote his recently released album, The Future is Now, which features his ensemble band, the T.R.C. [formed in 2008]. The album, he muses is, “a musical conversation”. Mlangeni was the Standard Bank Young Artist Winner (jazz) at the National Arts Festival in 2019 and has received numerous accolades in his multi-faceted career which includes composing Oratorio of A Forgotten Youth, a multi-disciplinary musical project. The Mandla Mlangeni tour is being presented by The Cape Town Music Academy, which provides a dynamic platform for emerging and veteran creatives. Read on for more about this extraordinary artist, who despite experiencing tremendous personal loss at an early age, has transcended circumstances through his music and he shares the healing with his audiences: