Aardklop 2003: ready to rock!
Some of SAs top musos will be in action at the Castle Loud Oppiaarde Rock Festival from 23-27 September at the Potchefstroom University Rag Farm.
SA Music Week reaches out
South African Music Week returns this year with a focus on education and live music. From 23-30 August, learners around the country will be exposed to a video on careers in the music industry, while all nine provinces explode with emerging artist concerts under the Music In Public Places banner.
Amandla! – singing down apartheid
"The apartheid government took everything away from people, but it couldn't stop them from singing", says Lee Hirsch, director of the documentary Amandla!, an impassioned chronicle of the role of music as a means of protest and survival through more than 40 years of struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
Role reversal in
The title of the latest SA movie to hit the screen, Hijack Stories, conjures up images of another predictably negative township story about criminals hijacking cars in the absence of anything else to do in Soweto. But there's a lot more to the film.
