Thank you for the music, MaMngoma
31 January 2021 - 00:00
When Sibongile Khumalo performed at the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival in 2016, I was pleasantly surprised when she mentioned my name. And I had to wonder what the rest of the audience inside the packed auditorium made of this unexpected special mention. It happened just before she played Mountain Shade, from her debut album Ancient Evenings. Then it dawned on me that before her show I had jokingly remarked that if her set didn’t include songs from this ground-breaking album it wouldn’t be worth attending...
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