Featuring: MoYah and The Zawose Queens
ABOUT THE SHOW
Make sure you’re there to celebrate and cap off an incredible week in style! With some fine SADACCA catering, some of the city’s best DJs, amazing bands and our One World Choir!
MoYah
Award-winning Afro-fusion Mozambican refugee artist MoYah and Angolan star Don Jaga bring a high energy Afro-fusion, Hip-Hop, and soul to the stage.
A 2025 IMIX Refugee Ambassador, MoYah fuses rhythm with resistance in an unforgettable performance.
The Zawose Queens
There is spirit and fire in the music of The Zawose Queens. There’s the vibrations of the ancestors, coming through on traditional instruments — soaring chizeze fiddle, buzzing illimba thumb piano, ngoma drums that chatter and thunder — and voices that go deep, high and out there. There’s the connection to nature, to ceremony and ritual, in their dance-inspired fusion, their blend of the organic, harmonic and modern-day electronic. There are lyrics that tell, in their native kigogo, of the passion for music, the wonders of life. Of pride in environment, in tradition. In their East African roots.
Pendo and Leah Zawose showcase the fluid polyrhythms and rapturous polyphonic singing of the Gogo (aka Wagogo) people of the arid, hilly Dodoma region of central Tanzania.
The most famous exponent of this musical tradition is the late, great Dr Hukwe Zawose (Pendo’s father and Leah’s grandfather).