Tunde of Lighthouse Family, Moonchild, MonoNeon, Judith Sephuma, Mi Casa, Thandi Ntuli, Hilton Schilder, Mervyn Africa and more have been added to the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) line-up.
The festival is taking place on Friday May 3 and Saturday May 4 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC).
This year’s festival will showcase African music royalty alongside their international counterparts.
Lindsay Rhoda, head of talent at espAfrika, founders and organisers of the CTIJF, believes the line-up has delivered a masterful blend that showcases today’s global melting pot of cultures and storytelling, and one that embraces all ages, including a younger audience and the world they live in.
Jazz is as relevant now if not more, than it has ever been, and she says: “This festival is one of the very few on the continent that conveys a comprehensive array of the jazz-genre’s multitude of layers and whose baseline of rhythm represents jazz’s complex foundations and traditions and its constant evolution.
“The 2024 festival experience is a nuanced anthem to where the world finds itself at present – at the crossroads of a new age, with a progression of artists adding their authentic and musical signatures to the messages of those who have already set the message.”
The organisers of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival have announced that the stage names will revert to their original designations and so once more, there will be Kippies (Sapphire), Manenberg (Topaz), Rosies (Emerald) and Moses Molelekwa (Ruby).
The programme for the 2024 Cape Town International Jazz Festival:
Kippies Stage
Friday May 3
Act One: Billy Monama
Act Two: Matt Bianco
Act Three: Tunde of Lighthouse Family
Act Four: Judith Sephuma
Saturday May 4
Act One: Ami Faku
Act Two: Moonchild
Act Three: Mandisi Dyantyis
Act Four: TBA
Moses Molelekwa Stage (ticket surcharge applies)
Friday May 3
Act One: Francesca Biancoli
Act Two: Kujenga
Act Three: Zoë Modiga
Act Four: TBA
Saturday May 4
Act One: Benjamin Jephta Presents ‘Born Coloured, Not Born-Free’
Act Two: MonoNeon
Act Three: Radio Sechaba
Act Four: The Yussef Dayes Experience
Rosies Stage (ticket surcharge applies)
Friday May 3
Act One: Darshan Doshi Trio Featuring Mark Hartsuch and Tony Grey
Act Two: Hilton Schilder Quintet
Act Three: Carlo Mombelli and The Prisoners of Strange
Saturday May 4
Act One: Mervyn Africa
Act Two: TBA
Act Three: Thandi Ntuli Presents Rainbow Revisited with Tlala Makhene and Sphelelo Mazibuko
Act Four: Nduduzo Makhathini Trio Feat. Omagugu
Basil ‘Manenberg’ Coetzee Stage
Friday May 3
Act One: Jab A Jaw (Resident DJ)
Act Two: Mi Casa
Act Three: Mörda
Act Four: Kokoroko
Saturday May 4
Act One: Clint L (Resident DJ)
Act Two: Daliwonga
Act Three: Mac G
Act Four: TBA
General admission festival tickets cost R950 per night per person which gives access to Kippies and Manenberg stages. Surcharge tickets are in operation for Rosies and Moses Molelekwa stages at R30 per person per show. General admission and surcharge tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. No under 10s and no pass outs allowed.
