YOOO! We hit the first $1k on the goal out of $3,000 !!😆
Also this is just a reminder that we are still fundraising for the FIRST community DIY Skatepark in the city of Harare and your support would be greatly appreciated <3
https://tributejar.com/campaign/harare-s-first-skatepark
Reel Via: @ harare._skateclub on IG.
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New Tutenkhamen – Forever together
https://amf.didiermary.fr/new-tutenkhamen-forever-together/
New Tutenkhamen, a 1970’s band from Harare, Zimbabwe, played an eclectic brand of Zimbabwean township music combining traditional rhythms and western influences.
The album “I wish you were mine” was originally published in 1979, during the liberation war.
The band’s most famous release, “Itai Cent Cent” was a sad lament of the poverty afflicting [...]
Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band – Skokiaan (1947)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bulawayo-sweet-rhythm-band-skokiaan-1947/
Skokiaan (the Tsaba Tsaba Dance – also known as Skokiyana, Skokian) is probably better known in the version recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1954 with the Sy Oliver orchestra, but this track was originally released in Rhodesia in 1947 by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm(s) Band. The tune found it’s way to the U.S. and lots […]
Roots Rocking Zimbabwe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/roots-rocking-zimbabwe/
Roots Rocking Zimbabwe – The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980
In the early 1970s, the townships of the Rhodesian capital, Salisbury (which would become Harare upon Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980), were buzzing with new sounds from diverse backgrounds. Bands began to fuse Anglo-Saxon rock, Congolese rumba, South African Mbaqanga, Soul, and [...]
RIP Mbuya Stella Chiweshe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rip-mbuya-stella-chiweshe/
Veteran award-winning musician and Mbira artist Mbuya Stella Chiweshe, the “Queen of Mbira” died in January 2023.
She was internationally known for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument in Zimbabwe, that she learned to play between 1966 to 1969, when fewer females played this instrument.
“I am a rebel,” smiles the […]
Please pay attention because this is the most important #Skateboarding post I will make this year! MY CITY IS FINALLY GETTING A COMMUNITY SKATEPARK!!!
An actual home, place to call ours, to be safe, to exist!
As it stands Harare Skate Club is trying to raise $3000. I have got into touch with the organisers and I will be on the grounds with my moms car to help when construction starts! PLEASE SUPPORT US
Dancers in Zimbabwe with Dembo remix
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dancers-zimbabwe-remix-leonard-dembo/
A remixed version of a classic track by the late Zimbabwean guitarist Leonard Dembo, with dancers in Zimbabwe expressing themselves in the streets.
Original version
The song is “Funga Zuva Rimwe Pagore” by Leonard Dembo & The Barura Express, on their 1991 album “Tinokumbira Kurarama.” […]
Symmetrical concave hexagons, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
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Gonora Sounds – Mukoma Shadrek
https://amf.didiermary.fr/gonora-sounds-mukoma-shadrek/
Gonora Sounds is a family band that has been busking on the streets of Zimbabwe since 2004. Entertaining thousands of commuters with their street beat dubbed Gonora Sounds by regular revellers. The band is led by blind singer/songwriter Daniel Gonora, a master on the guitar with protege teenage son Isaac Gonora on drums. […]
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