| Lindsay Yon to Perform at Mannenberg |
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| Music & Dance - Other Beats |
| Friday, 19 February 2010 11:12 |
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This Saturday (27 February), the colourful soul-funk-r&b band Subway will perform at The Mannenberg, featuring upcoming songstress Lindsay Yon, as part of the dynamic programme for the promotion of women artists: FLAME (Female Literary, Arts and Music Enterprise) by Harare arts organisation, Pamberi Trust.
Her influences have been far and wide, from Roberta Flack and Janis Joplin to Mafikizolo, Norah Jones and Corinne Bailey Rae, and her repertoire dips successfully into all of those. Lindsay is not a newcomer to the public stage in Harare, having performed widely over the past few years with the vocal backing group ‘Fifth Avenue’ and guesting with The Yon Brothers and other bands, applying her strong warm voice to gutsy bluesy-rock, mellow ballards, and hard-hitting African rhythms. Since last year, she has teamed up with long-experienced musicians from Harare and Bulawayo as Subway, comprising Nigel Wyngard (keyb/guitar), Bob Savannia (drums), Joe Vas (sax/guitar), and Brennan Wyngard (bass), this time joined also by another brilliant young singer, Comfort Mwanyisa. FLAME is the gender project of Pamberi Trust, an arts organisation which exists to facilitate the arts in Zimbabwe. Pamberi Trust is committed to enhancing opportunities for women in the arts, and the FLAME project is tailored to support female artists practically by offering publicity and exposure, performance opportunities, networking and skills workshops. Share this page... |
Coming from the background of a strong and gifted musical Mutare family which has brought over a dozen musicians to the public stage over some 70 years, Lindsay Yon (who is the daughter of popular blues singer/guitarist Dave Yon), represents the third generation of performers in that family, exposed from her earliest years to a wide and eclectic mix of jazz, soul, blues, latin and rock, evolving with the times towards the modern urban soul and afro-pop of today. From the Picture Archives
Mbira Fans. A man and a woman dance at a Mawungira eNharira show in Harare recently. |
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