All roads lead to Alliance Francaise de Harare on Saturday September 23 as the inaugural Zimbabwe Jazz Festival roars to life.
Presented by the Zimbabwe Jazz Community Trust, the festival will feature some of Zimbabwe’s finest jazz artists such as Vee Mukarati, Josh Meck, Frank Mavhimira and many more.
“The Zimbabwe Jazz Community Trust has been running exciting live jazz concerts since May 2016 under its Back2Jazzics brand. The initiative has unearthed some talented jazz artists and at the same time it has caused seasoned artists to rebrand their acts to greater expectations,” read a statement from the trust.
The trust plans to make the festival an annual event for the enjoyment of jazz enthusiasts in the country.
“The festival is unique in that it brings together strictly jazz musicians.
“We are launching this event only with artists based in the country. The idea is to showcase some of our most amazing and rightfully deserving talent as a stimulus to help in the revival of jazz in Zimbabwe. In the coming years however, we will also feature international jazz artists as we grow the event,” further read the statement.
The Zimbabwe Jazz Community Trust is a non-profit organization which has among its objectives to design high quality programmes to promote, educate and display jazz talent in Zimbabwe using seminars and workshops in the short term.
As a long term objective, the trust intends to enter into partnerships with colleges and universities to provide scholarships for deserving students.
