The Gig Guide: NAF Edition
The National Arts Festival celebrates 50 years of being the leading multi-disciplinary arts festival in South Africa. This year the festival will run from 20 – 30 June 2024 in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown). If you haven’t decided which shows you are going to be watching over the next week and a bit, here’s a list of musical offerings to help you make your choice.
If there ever was a time where we needed art in all its forms to help us understand our world, it’s now.
| Date | Show | Venue | Tickets |
| 20 June | Shine On | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 20 June | A Musician’s Guide to the Galaxy | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 20 June | Ibali Lam | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 20 June | Iculo lika Mama | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 20 June | The Big Band Explosion | Amazwi | Book Now |
| 20 June | When Speech Is Not Enough | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 21 June | Halala! ILAM’s 70th Birthday Celebration Concert | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 21 June | The South African National Jazz Orchestra | Great Hall | Book Now |
| 21 June | Guy Buttery & The Gqeberha String Trio | Great Hall | Book Now |
| 21 June | A Musical Tribute to Nokutela Mdima-Dube by Nonhlanhla Yende | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 21 June | Iculo lika Mama | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 21 June | Shine On | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 21 June | The Big Band Explosion | Amazwi | Book Now |
| 21 June | A Musician’s Guide to the Galaxy | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 21 June | Zoë Modiga – nomthandazo: amahubo | Guy Butler Theatre | Book Now |
| 22 June | Mandisi Dyantyis | Guy Butler Theatre | Book Now |
| 22 June | Ibali Lam | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 22 June | The Return Of Cypher | The Black Power Station | Book Now |
| 22 June | Abangazi | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 22 June | A Musical Tribute to Nokutela Mdima-Dube by Nonhlanhla Yende | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 22 June | Ndim Ingoma | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 22 June | Guy Buttery & The Gqeberha String Trio | Great Hall | Book Now |
| 22 June | A Musician’s Guide to the Galaxy | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 22 June | Iculo lika Mama | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 22 June | The Big Band Explosion | Amazwi | Book Now |
| 22 June | Zoë Modiga – nomthandazo: amahubo | Guy Butler Theatre | Book Now |
| 23 June | A Musical Tribute to Nokutela Mdima-Dube by Nonhlanhla Yende | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 23 June | The Offering [to our other selves] | Amazwi | Book Now |
| 23 June | Ibali Lam | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 23 June | A Musician’s Guide to the Galaxy | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 23 June | Ndim Ingoma | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 23 June | Abangazi | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 23 June | SYLEEZ | The Black Power Station | Book Now |
| 23 June | Iculo lika Mama | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 23 June | Mandisi Dyantyis | Guy Butler Theatre | Book Now |
| 24 June | Ingoma YoHadi (Song of the Harp) | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 24 June | Grieve, that is how you survive. | Amazwi | Book Now |
| 24 June | When Speech Is Not Enough | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 24 June | Dalisu Ndlazi: The Inevitable Calling | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 24 June | Metropolar | Centenary Hall | Book Now |
| 24 June | The Birth – Darren English | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 24 June | A Wind Symphony | Kingswood Theatre | Book Now |
| 24 June | A Musical Tribute to Nokutela Mdima-Dube by Nonhlanhla Yende | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 24 June | Achiba Don | The Black Power Station | Book Now |
| 24 June | The Offering [to our other selves] | Amazwi | Book Now |
| 24 June | Ndim Ingoma | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 24 June | Ibali Lam | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 25 June | Grieve, that is how you survive. | Amazwi | Book Now |
| 25 June | If Jazz Be The Food of Love | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 25 June | Metropolar | Centenary Hall | Book Now |
| 25 June | 4th Man | City Hall | Book Now |
| 25 June | Shaun Johannes & The Ploemies | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 25 June | A Wind Symphony | Kingswood Theatre | Book Now |
| 25 June | Zoe the Seed | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 25 June | Ndim Ingoma | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 25 June | Jazz with Asanda Mqiki (The Gold Experience) | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 25 June | Ingoma YoHadi (Song of the Harp) | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 25 June | UKZN & Stellenbosch University | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 25 June | Vibe Nation SA, Uhadi Lomxesibe & Senqu Dipina | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 25 June | Abangazi | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 25 June | Ghana Jazz Collective | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 25 June | Flow | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 25 June | Jam Session I | Sakhile Simani | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 25 June | Maritzburg College & Parel Vallei | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 26 June | Jazz with Asanda Mqiki (The Gold Experience) | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 26 June | Sakhile Simani: People of My Community | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 26 June | Bergvliet & Durban High | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 26 June | A Wind Symphony | Kingswood Theatre | Book Now |
| 26 June | Siya Charles Sextet | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 26 June | If Jazz Be The Food of Love | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 26 June | Imonti Jazz Band & Malayisha Jazz Band | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 26 June | Grieve, that is how you survive. | Amazwi | Book Now |
| 26 June | Conversations | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 26 June | Piano & Poems: Everybody is a Bridge | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 26 June | Flow | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 26 June | Metropolar | Centenary Hall | Book Now |
| 26 June | St. Cyprian’s & Moses Molelekwa Arts Foundation | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 26 June | Jam Session II | Blake Hellaby | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 26 June | IBHUNGA, The Council presents UMANYANO | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 27 June | Driemanskap | The Black Power Station | Book Now |
| 27 June | MANDILAKHE IKHAYA | The Black Power Station | Book Now |
| 27 June | Jazz with Asanda Mqiki (The Gold Experience) | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 27 June | The Hamburg Jazz Band, Sive Sontshaka & the Tribute Jazz Band, Phinda Mtya | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 27 June | ‘Umbhiyozo Womculo’ a Celebration of Music | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 27 June | North West Artist with Disability Show | PJ’S | Book Now |
| 27 June | Ghana Jazz Collective | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 27 June | Grieve, that is how you survive. | Amazwi | Book Now |
| 27 June | If Jazz Be The Food of Love | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 27 June | University of Cape Town | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 27 June | Piano & Poems: Everybody is a Bridge | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 27 June | Outeniqua High | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 27 June | IBHUNGA, The Council presents UMANYANO | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 27 June | A Wind Symphony | Kingswood Theatre | Book Now |
| 27 June | Neil Gonsalves Trio + 2 | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 27 June | Flow | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 27 June | 4th Man | City Hall | Book Now |
| 27 June | Yonela Mnana | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 27 June | Jam session III | Duncan Johnson | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 28 June | Melikhaya Heugh & Dumza Maswana | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 28 June | Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse | Guy Butler Theatre | Book Now |
| 28 June | Jazz with Asanda Mqiki (The Gold Experience) | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 28 June | If Jazz Be The Food of Love | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 28 June | ‘Umbhiyozo Womculo’ a Celebration of Music | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 28 June | Little Giants | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 28 June | Schau-fe[r]n-ster and the Sleepwalker | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 28 June | Flow | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 28 June | ZANOMHLOLA | The Black Power Station | Book Now |
| 28 June | IBHUNGA, The Council presents UMANYANO | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 28 June | Ramon Alexander Trio | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 28 June | Reconnections | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 28 June | Wamkelwa | The Black Power Station | Book Now |
| 28 June | Stirling High | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 28 June | Kesivan & The Lights | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 28 June | Jam Session IV | Kyle du Preez | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 29 June | The Offering [to our other selves] | Amazwi | Book Now |
| 29 June | Youth Jazz Vocal Celebration | DSG Auditorium | Book Now |
| 29 June | The Birth – Darren English | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 29 June | National Schools Jazz Band – Natalie Rungan | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 29 June | National Youth Jazz Band – Sisonke Xonti | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 29 June | Cape Jazz Jol! | DSG Hall | Book Now |
| 29 June | North West Artist with Disability Show | PJ’S | Book Now |
| 29 June | Schau-fe[r]n-ster and the Sleepwalker | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 29 June | IBHUNGA, The Council presents UMANYANO | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 29 June | Ndlulamthi | The Black Power Station | Book Now |
| 29 June | Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse | Guy Butler Theatre | Book Now |
| 29 June | Piano & Poems: Everybody is a Bridge | Beethoven Room | Book Now |
| 29 June | Jazz with Asanda Mqiki (The Gold Experience) | Thomas Pringle | Book Now |
| 29 June | THE MUFFINZ | The Black Power Station | Book Now |
| 30 June | North West Artist with Disability Show | PJ’S | Book Now |
| 30 June | THE COLLABORATION DAY Featuring Mzi SA | The Black Power Station | Book Now |
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