JAZZ SINGER TUTU PUOANE TOURS SA WITH HER ‘WRAPPED IN A RHYTHM’ ALBUM OF LEBO MASHILE POEMS
Pretoria born, Antwerp Belgium based jazz vocalist Tutu Puoane will be on tour in South Africa this July and August, presenting the music of her current and award-winning double album project Wrapped In Rhythm, which is based on and dedicated to the poetry of Lebo Mashile. She will perform two concerts with her full band in Gauteng, and do four more in an intimate duo setting with her Belgian pianist Ewout Pierreux in Durban, Cape Town and Gqeberha.
Aug 1 – Market Theatre, Johannesburg (feat. Ewout Pierreux, pno / Shane Cooper, bass / Sphelelo Mazibuko, drums)
Aug 2 – State Theatre, Pretoria (feat. Ewout Pierreux, pno / Shane Cooper, bass / Sphelelo Mazibuko, drums)
Aug 6 – UKZN Jazz Centre, Durban (feat. Ewout Pierreux)
Aug 8 – Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town (feat. Ewout Pierreux)
Aug 10 – Guga S’thebe, Cape Town (feat. Ewout Pierreux)
Aug 15 – The One Room, Gqeberha (feat. Ewout Pierreux)
Tutu Puoane who has lived in Antwerp, Belgium since 2005, she walked around with the poetry book In A Ribbon Of Rhythm by Lebo Mashile under her arm for almost a decade. Mashile’s poetry offers unique and very personal insight into the reality and emotional world of a young black African woman of South Africa’s first post- Apartheid generation. The poems made a deep impression on Tutu, and every time she read them, she heard music.
“I remember how deeply I was affected by the poetry collection “In A Ribbon Of Rhythm” She says. ” Ten years ago, this book had me in a choke-hold. I often find things about my country so difficult to express, it all feels so strange after being gone from home for so long and yet still hold a very deep connection to the land and people. The poems of Lebo helped me feel and express things I couldn’t express myself. ”
The orchestral Volume 2 of the project (featuring Metropole Orkest) will be released worldwide on September 19, but Puoane will already have limited physical pre-stock of CDs and vinyls available at the shows.
