Folklore Festival Reprise in CAPE TOWN: SIFISO KHANYILE film screening UPRIZE! and music by DJ’s, DIGITAL SANGOMA & KUJENGA

ABOUT

The festival year on year closes with a REPRISE.What is the definition of a reprise: “in music, a reprise is the repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition

This year’s Folklore Festival Reprise will be held in Cape Town.

FOLKLORE FESTIVAL (REPRISE) - LINE UP ON 20 & 21SEPTEMBER IN CAPE TOWN AT THE GORGEOUS GEORGE PINK ROOM FROM 6PM TILL LATE,FEATURES…

MORENA LERABA, KUJENGA, DIGITAL SANGOMA, CHOSI, SIFISO KHANYILE FILMS: UPRIZE & A NEW COUNTRY, with DJ MIGHTY AND ATIYYAH KHAN (EL CORAZON)

Our Friday night headliner’s are Kujenga, a seven piece Black improvised music outfit from Cape Town, Kujenga follows on from the rich history of Black band music in South Africa, with the young ensemble representing the present & future for this historic sound.The band released their debut album 'Nationality' in 2019 and their sophomore album 'In The Wake' in 2024.

And then we present Digital Sangoma - an independent Afro indie Electronic Music Producer, DJ, and Performer from sunny Cape Town, South Africa. His music is a hypnotic blend of traditional chants, Afro, indie, and Alternative Dance, with an electric dash of Afro House and groovy guitar riffs, all wrapped up in soulful vocals.

Both nights, begin with a film screenings and curated DJ sets by Sifiso Khanyile

Sifiso Khanyile is a Producer/ Director of Anaphora Films. He has works as writer, archive researcher and has worked as a content producer on SABC shows such as Imagine Afrika, Zooming In on Men,Talk SA and Hatch. After studying, Khanyile directed Spiderman and Romeo(2008), a ground breaking short documentary about the thrills and dangers of train surfing on the notorious Metro rail Soweto line. The film was screened at numerous local and international festivals and shown on BBC and Sechuan TV(China). Khanyile's first feature documentary directorial credits include the acclaimed Uprize! (2017) and A New Country (2020).

Ticket Links to Cape Town Below

Early Bird and Student Ticket at R180 | At the door at R200

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