On 11 October Nomfusi and her band, The Lucky Charms, will be spreading their wings into Africa, to play at the Lake of the Stars Festival in Malawi. Sharing the bill with Oliver Mtukudzi and UK indie band The Noisettes, they are looking forward to three sun filled days on the palm fringed shores of the third biggest lake in Africa.
While in Malawi, Nomfusi and her band will be spending two days teaching music workshops at The Jacaranda Foundation in Blantyre, a school for Aids orphans. Nomfusi will be addressing the school in three 45 minute presentations, talking about her experience of rising above her circumstances, and liberating herself from what she calls “the poverty of the mind.” The song she wrote about the topic, Nontsokolo*, will be performed at Lake of the Stars with a group made up of students at the school, The Jacaranda Band. The project is being made possible by the Belgian NGO, Art Moves Africa.
Nomfusi will also be collaborating with Khethi, a Joburg based cross-over hip-hop afro-soul singer, to present a Mother’s Day concert in Blantyre on 14 October, that will be attended by Malawi’s First Lady, Madame Callista Mutharika.
photo credit: NOMFUSI PHOTOGRAPHED IN MONTREAL AT THE FESTIVAL NUITS D’AFRIQUE BY JEAN-SEBASTIEN JOSSETT/MONDOMIX.
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