October 28, 2022
Nobuntu, a feminine a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe, will carry out at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, within the College of Wyoming Buchanan Heart for the Performing Arts live performance corridor. (Ronald Davis Photograph)
Nobuntu, a dynamic feminine a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe, are the particular visitor artists scheduled to carry out at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, within the College of Wyoming Buchanan Heart for the Performing Arts live performance corridor.
Tickets are $12 for the general public, $8 for senior residents and $6 for college students. To buy tickets, go to the Performing Arts field workplace, name (307) 766-6666 or go surfing at www.tix.com/ticket-sales/uwyo/6984.
Named for an African idea that values humility, love, objective, unity and household from a girl’s perspective, Nobuntu was based in 2011 by a brand new technology of younger ladies singers to have fun and protect their tradition, magnificence and heritage by way of artwork. Nobuntu is grounded within the perception that music is crucial and unique wheel of change and might transcend racial, tribal, spiritual, gender and financial boundaries.
Members are Heather Dube, Zanele Manhenga, Brenda Rera, Duduzile Sibanda and Joyline Sibanda.
The ensemble has drawn worldwide popularity of its ingenious performances, which vary from conventional Zimbabwean songs to Afro jazz to gospel. Their live shows are carried out with pure voices, augmented by minimalistic percussion, conventional devices such because the mbira (thumb piano) and natural, genuine dance actions.
Nobuntu was nominated for 2015 Greatest Musician of the 12 months on the Zimbabwe Worldwide Ladies Awards in London and was a two-time winner of the Greatest Imbube Group on the Bulawayo Arts Awards in 2017 and 2019.
The quintet has carried out at festivals and live performance halls in Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic and all through the African continent. The ensemble was a crucial success at Trans-Vocal in Frankfurt and Voice Mania in Vienna. Its first tour to Canada, in 2016, included performances in Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Victoria.
Nobuntu has launched two albums, “Thina” (2013) and “Ekhaya” (2016).
For extra info, name Kathy Kirkaldie, UW Effective Arts coordinator, at (307) 766-2160 or e-mail [email protected].
