Unyazi 2008
NewMusicSA is proud to present their 2nd Unyazi festival, Fear of the Known, a festival of “extreme listening.” Curated by James Webb, co-produced by Pro Helvetia Cape Town and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and supported by the Goethe Institute, Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud, the Embassy of France, the Danish Arts Council, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the National Arts Council, SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts, UNISA Music Foundation, the International Library of African Music, and the Nederlands Fonds voor Podiumkunsten, the festival will be hosted at the University of Cape Town on the 12th of March, the University of Stellenbosch on the 14th and 15th of March and at the University of the Witwatersrand on the 16th of March.
Artists performing and more after the jump…
Artists appearing in concert and conference include:
- Asmus Tietchens (DE)
- Automat (FR)
- Brandon LaBelle (USA)
- Brendon Bussy (ZA)
- Carine Zaayman (ZA)
- Ensemble Je Ne Pas Comprends (ZA)
- Eric LaCasa (FR)
- Garth Erasmus (ZA)
- Jako Maron (RE)
- James Webb (ZA)
- Jason Kahn (CH)
- Julian Jonker (ZA)
- Lawrence English (AUS)
- Patrick Bebelaar (DE)
- Philip Samartzis (AUS)
- The POW Ensemble (NL)
- Marc Behrens (DE),
- Mark Schreiber (DE)
- Righard Kapp (ZA),
- Stacy Hardy (ZA),
- Sudden Infant (CH)
- The Kemus Ensemble (ZA)
- Ulrich Süsse (DE/ZA)
- Warrick Sony (ZA)
- Willem Boshoff (ZA)
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