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Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Friday, August 10

Time(s): 8:15 pm - 10:15 pm
Location:Runway Stage | Map & Directions
Hangar Café opens at 6 p.m.
Music begins at 8:15 p.m.
Free Admission, $10 Parking

For more than forty years, the voices of Ladysmith Black Mambazo have married the intricate rhythms and harmonies of their native South African musical traditions to the sounds of gospel music.

Assembled in the early 1960s, in Durban South Africa, by Joseph Shabalala (still currently leading the group) – then a young farmboy turned factory worker –Joseph took the name Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Ladysmith being the name of Shabalala’s rural hometown; Black being a reference to oxen, the strongest of all farm animals; and Mambazo being the Zulu word for axe, a symbol of the group’s ability to “chop down” any singing rival who might challenge them.

This performance is part of World Beat Weekend at the Flights & Sounds Summer Festival.
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