Performance duration

1 - 4 Hours

Stage & Power requirements

Performers

Travel Information

Happy to Travel

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Shangara Jive is a 7 piece band that performs a variety of African styles including, Kwassa Kwassa, Roots Reggae, Soka Beat, Jit, Chimurenga (Mbira Music) and Soukous. The music takes its influences from traditional Mbira (Thumb piano), Drumming and Dancing troupes in Zimbabwe and from many contemporary Chimurenga Music artists including Oliver Mtukudzi, Thomas Mapfumo and the Black Spirits, John Chibadura. The music incorporates flavours from other African nations including the Congo and South Africa and percussion styles from Zimbabwe, Guinea and Senegal. Songs are sung in Shona (Zimbabwe) and English and cover themes such as day to day living in Africa, African traditions and culture, education for African youth, political impacts on african societies the joy of music, love and togetherness.