Tag Archives: folk

Tribes’ Got Soul: Assembling The Good Folk

Posted on: May 18, 2017

Sun 7 May 2017 A night of (at times a bit frustrating) musical collaboration, American Willy Mason headlined this Sunday show at Mercury, featuring Frenchmen Yoann Minkoff and Kris Nolly, Brits Emily Capell and Matt Cowley and Capetonian Mark Fransman. … Continue reading →

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Tagged acoustic, american, british, cape town, emily capell, evenings, folk, french, gigs & festivals, guitars, inge beckmann, international act, kris nolly, long hair, mark fransman, mercury, photography, rock, sonik citizen, south africa, south african, texx and the city, weekends, willy mason, yoann minkoff

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Leftöver Crack (US) at Mercury Live

Posted on: February 15, 2017

Fri 10 February 2017 American crust punk veterans Leftöver Crack played a highly sweaty and energetic show at Mercury at the beginning of Feb, with support from The Shabs (formerly the Shabeen), Monday Morning Justice and Half Price, who were … Continue reading →

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Tagged accordion, alive at midnight, american, cape town, crowd surfing, double bass, evenings, folk, gigs & festivals, guitars, half price, hog hoggidy hog, international act, jumping musicians, leftover crack, long hair, mercury, monday morning justice, moshing, music, photography, punk, rock, ska, stage diving, summer, tattoos, texx and the city, the shabeen, the shabs, weekends

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Interplanetary Folk Fest at the Blah Blah Bar

Posted on: November 6, 2016

Sat 26 September 2016 Blah Blah Bar held the Interplanetary Folk fest, a mini folk and quirky music festival, over a week at the end of September; here are some shots of the Saturday night, featuring Ottoman Slap, Hezron Chetty, … Continue reading →

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Tagged acoustic, afrikaans, belly dancers, blah blah bar, cape town, churchill, costumes, dressing up, evenings, festival, folk, gigs & festivals, hezron chetty, jonothan tait, kloof street, long hair, music, ottoman slap, photography, riku latti, south africa, south african, texx and the city, weekends

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Oppikoppi 2016: The Unsea Day 1

Posted on: October 25, 2016

Fri 5 August 2016 It’s taken me longer than it should have to post about Oppikoppi. The truth is that I fell in love with the fest last year (my first time) and couldn’t wait to go back, but sadly … Continue reading →

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Tagged acoustic, afrikaans, art snakes, bittereinder, boargazm, bye beneco, cape town, chambers, costumes, crowds, de wallen, dressing up, dust, events, favourites, folk, follow me follow you, gigs & festivals, guitars, hilltop live, johannesburg, jumping musicians, limpopo, long hair, memories, music, nakhane toure, nature, newtown knife gang, northam, ok22, oppikoppi, out in the country, outdoors, photography, plants & flowers, pollinator, portraits, rap, rock, satanic dagga orgy, south africa, south african, texx and the city, the acateurs, the dandies, the narrow, the plastics, the unsea, thieve, thomas krane, thorns, weekends

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Folk Rock & Frocks at the Blah Blah Blah

Posted on: July 27, 2016

Thurs 21 July 2016 An acoustic celebration of females in folk at the Blah Blah Bar, featuring Josie Field & Laurie Lavine, Auriel Lefebre and Jae Braun and organised by Don’t Call me Moses.