Sauti Za Afrika Live at the Armchair Theatre

Sauti Za Afrika is group of emerging artists who connected though the love of jazz at the South African College of Music, UCT. The band members diverse origins including Cape Town, Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Nairobi Kenya. This group of young musicians aims to use music as a way to connect with one another and with other people, sharing their identities and telling their stories through Afro jazz and poetry. Their music is heavily influenced by South African Jazz, pentatonic sounds and some Afrocentric traditional vocal and percussive sounds. Join us and celebrate our sounds and soulful expressions through the gifts of music, poetry and storytelling.

Maria Gakenye and Khonkco Twalo on Vocals and shaker percussions.

Reuben Maart on Lead guitar

Girswin Pypers on Bass guitar

Mthetho Mathenjwa on Piano keys

Josh Roelofse on Drums

The event at the Armchair is a student friendly show that aims to celebrate the musicality of young Africans. Sauti Za Afrika hope to share their music with a youthful audience celebrating the power of music in creating bonds and carrying people through intricate moments of life.

we invite you to share in our Afrojazz sensations and culminations of Jazz Poetry.