Pilani Bubu presents KINFOLK at Mamakashaka & Friends
5 April @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
R200 – R300
Pilani Bubu x Mamakashaka present # KINFOLK on Saturday 5 April 2025
Featuring DJ Womlambo + Poet: Xabiso Vili | On the band stand: Guitar: Keenan Ahrends, Bass: Dalisu Ndlazi, Drums: Simphiwe Tshabalala, Trumpet: Robin Fassie, Alto Saxophone: Phumlani Mtiti
Doors Open 15:00pm
Xabiso Vili – Poetry Installation 16:00pm
Womlambo – DJ set 17:00pm
Performance – 18:00 – 19:30ppm
The SAMA award winning album Folklore Chapter 1 (2029), is a suite of nostalgic African folk tales. In ‘Folklore Chapter 2:Ekuseni (2023), she delves even deeper into ancient wisdom, sharing a personal story of her ancestors, their rituals, her rites, their gifts, her inheritances, and the relationship there between. Conjuring melodies that transport listeners to the ethereal realms of African spirituality.
Her latest offering Nay’Indaba, is a sonic odyssey reflecting on South Africa’s history and contemplating 30 years of Freedom through the prism of strong women. Over the course of the album’s eight tracks, it explores in depth South Africa’s complex history and social ills, whilst sharing a positive story of the ongoing struggle against inequality, youth unemployment and poverty. Rooted in the magnetic atmosphere and memories of this country, the result is a musicality that is both psychedelic and ferocious. The album is a collaboration with the French trans-oriental jazz-rock band; Marthe.
As the founder of the Folklore Community, Pilani presents the theme for the Folklore Festival, year on year.
On this day, we launch…
#KINFOLK | Our 2025 Manifesto
In the delicate synchronicities of human connection, we find our #KINFOLK not merely through bloodlines, but through the resonant frequencies of shared understanding. Kindred spirits emerge like starlight through the darkness, drawn together by an ineffable recognition of mutual truth. We gather in sacred spaces to weave together our cultural inheritances & gifts, like tributary streams joining a mighty river, watering our collective consciousness.