Chaka ne mbira

06/29/2018

New single: Famba with Mbira Renaissance !

1 track album

07/10/2017

*new song alert*
https://mbirarenaissance.bandcamp.com/track/guramatunhu-the-traveller

This is the story of a family vehicle named 'Guramatunhu' aka Gura,
(translated: The Traveller / Conqueror of Towns). Gura, a faithful servant, for a decade and a half, carried members of a very large, extended family across Zimbabwe to various family functions: weddings; funerals; road trips; doctors visits; vacations; work visits- often over mountains, through rivers and rough, bumpy, dust roads.

Dedicated to Ranga Zinyemba and Alice Zinyemba- the original owners of Guramatunhu,on the occasion of their 40th wedding anniversary, without whom the story of Gura would have never been. Played it for the first time at their anniversary in Borrowdale, Zimbabwe last month.

Many thanks to the Mbira Renaissance bandmates for the arrangement, backing vocals and guitar solo. Special thanks to Munya Mataruse for his production work and sprinkling some magic!

Guramatunhu (The Traveller) by Mbira Renaissance, released 10 June 2017 English Translation (Shona lyrics below): I remember those days dad- with Guramatunhu we travelled everywhere To Gutu and to Mhondoro, I know that even people in Lilongwe (Malawi) knew Gura, We travelled in the Mozambican heat,…

04/01/2017

come watch us play!

Music For Your Spirit!

03/11/2017

Please watch and see how you can help save one of Harare's only creative hubs! Moto Republik Magamba TV

01/10/2017

Happy new year everybody :) Here is a track that we've been working on with Mbira Renaissance. We recorded this live at the Metro Cinema a week ago. We have a little video coming up soon!

Title: Daira Artist: The Mbira Renaissance Band Sound Producer: Scott Franchuk (Riverdale Recorders)

07/20/2016

Happy to be playing for Alberta's Premier tomorrow at her annual breakfast to kick off K-days!

06/27/2016

Playing our brand new song "Shamwari Yangu (My friend)" at the The Works Art & Design Festival with Mbira Renaissance and our good friend Leonard Nicoll ! We'll be playing more of this tomorrow evening, and at Zimfest 2016 in Oregon this summer. We still have our GoFundMe for this trip running here: https://www.gofundme.com/mbira-zimfest?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_content=cta_button&utm_campaign=upd_n

Thanks Nonsikelelo Mathe for the clip!

06/22/2016

Hey all! Did I mention that along with Mbira Renaissance I will be going to the U.S this summer for Zimfest 2016?! We are pretty excited and would appreciate as much support as we can get! If you'd like to pitch in, check out our GoFundma page. We just reached 10% of our goal!

https://www.gofundme.com/mbira-zimfest

Mbira Renaissance, has been invited to feature as guest artists at this years' Zimbabwe Music Festival (Zimfest) 2016 . The event is held in conjuction with the department of music at Western Oregon University (Monmouth, Oregon,USA). We are inviting you to help us along on our journey to Oregon...

05/05/2016

Hey all, I was meant to co-host last night's EMCN Rise awards at Northlands with City TV weather host Josh Classen, however I want to thank the Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers for showing solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Ft McMurray who have been affected by the wildfire disaster. The event has been postponed and all food was donated to emergency relief shelter at the Northlands. Like many others in Alberta, Josh and I have also found ourselves working round the clock to help where we can. If you would like to volunteer, please see the Edmonton Emergency Relief Social Services website for details on how you can help.

04/12/2016

Some tracks from our group based here in Edmonton !

3 track album