Dande Mutande

Mbira (Zimbabwe) + fiddle (Norway) + dance at MS Innvik on July 24 (at 20h). Mbira solo concert with Jimu Makurumbandi (Zimbabwe). With guest musician Øyvind Rauset (Norway) on violin and dancers from the Heritage Dance company. Coreographer is Bright Wamwanduka (Zimbabwe/ Norway).

The concert is at MS Innvik, the theatre boat in the Oslo Harbour 200 meters from the Oslo Opera house. CC 80,-

Who is Jimu Makurumbandi?

A Zimbabwean musician, dancer, choreographer and actor, trained in Zimbabwe and Norway via France. Brought up in the ghetto of Mbare in Harare, Jimu is from a very poor family. He is a self taught musician using the art of listening and looking when his family was holding ritual ceremonies known as "Bira"part of family activities. So dancing and music has been part of his life. He is inspired by great musicians like Thomas Mapfumo, Oliver Mtukudzi, the late Mamma Miriam Makeba, Ayu Ogada and other great African musicians.
For Jimu Mbira music is like a bridge between earth and heaven.

Dande Mutande

is a Mbira show which is a mixture of acapella drum and Mbira songs from Jimu Makurumbandi and some folk rhythms from Zimbabwe. There will be a fusion of Norwegian Fidle and Mbira in this concert (Gwindingwi meets Norsk Folkemusikk).

Øyvind Rauset

Øyvind Rauset is a violin player with classical education, who also plays folk, rock and world music. He played in the first Norwegian folk rock band Folque in the 70's and in the group Ym-Stammen in the 80's-90's. He has been on stage at Roskilde, Kalvøya, Quart and the Kongsberg jazz festival. The last 5 years he plays swing jazz with the Oslo Radio-Orkester. He participated with Jimu in the Heritage Dance group which performed in the new Oslo Opera last autumn and in Harare (Zimbabwe) in May 09. He has released 2 albums, "Landscape With Two Figures" and "13 Impossible Dances", the last one available on iTunes.

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