Hosted by Just Festival at Edinburgh International Festival Fringe August 2017 The historic Rainbow Restaurant is going to Edinburgh’s International Where: Festival Fringe. Just Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Venue: St John’s Church, Princes Street: a 120 seats theatre in the city center. It will be hosted by Just Festival. through music, this unique multimedia Presenting a multi-disciplinary South installation follows the South Africa - UK When: African cultural installation aiming to Season (2014-2015) and tells a story of August 2017 share the best of their 36 year history memories and hope. 24 DAYS of performance of struggle for freedom and peace What: Installed in a re-designed church with a special “Rainbow” artistic set-up, the one month installation, “the RAINBOW in EDINBURGH” will share the ongoing story of a unique cultural institution from KwaZulu-Natal where music is used as a medium to break down social barriers” On stage: 7 bands that have a historic link to the Rainbow stage will have four days of performances each. 2 - Rainbow in Edinburgh The Music The Sounds of KwaZulu-Natal Madala Kunene Madala Kunene, the king of Zulu blues guitar is one of a staunch academic who wanted him to be something of a the oldest and dearest friends of the Rainbow with a bookworm. At the age of eight, in the year 1959, Kunene and performance history on our stage dating back to the 1980’s. some members of his extended family were trucked off by As part of a double bill with the high energy maskanda the Apartheid government to go live in the then relatively new sounds of Shabalala Rhythm for our opening salvo in township of KwaMashu. “People can’t imagine what it’s like Edinburgh, we cannot think of a better combination to lay when you see bulldozers demolish your home in the middle down a distinct marker on the region that gave birth to of the night,” recalls Kunene. “The worst thing was that when the Rainbow Restaurant. With the Rainbow having been they moved us, they came at night and packed my family established in the dark days of Apartheid, we are inviting into the back of a truck and then went to another area to Kunene to present his current album, 1959 . pick up another family there and so on. So you were not just separated from your home, you were stripped of your friends Kunene was born in 1951 in Mkhumbane (Cato Manor), a and neighbours in the process. It was a very calculated act,” vibrant mixed community just outside of inner Durban. The Kunene adds. son of a carpenter, Kunene was raised by his grandmother — Shabalala Rhythm World music talent comes no finer than guitarist Maqhinga Radebe was called that from the Shabalala family of Durban. to join the group. Later that year the first Sibongiseni Shabalala, who now steps album was released.Since the band formed into his father’s shoes to lead Ladysmith they have gone from strength to strength Black Mambaso, is also the core of the hot performing nationally and internationally. Maskanda act Shabalala Rhythm. Their live shows are high energy, very slick A hugely talented performer Sibongiseni productions. drives with a passion any project he is Supporters of the band know to expect involved with. Shabalala Rhythm began a fantastic event and new followers in 1998 and after writing tracks “Ubuhle will be swept up by their precision and Bakho” and “Intombi Ingalile” Durban interpretation of the Maskanda style. Rainbow in Edinburgh - 3 The Music The Jazz Masters Louis Mhlanga Quintet Mhlanga (born 10 November 1956) is such as Shaka, Talking Drum, Ilanga, a South African based Zimbabwean Mudzimu, and Oliver Mtukudzi. Louis award-winning guitarist and producer. eventually headed to South Africa to pursue different musical opportunities, Mhlanga’s career began in the 1970s. leading to collaborations with renowned Fronting many bands in Zimbabwe, South African artists such as Miriam he mixed American and Zimbabwean Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Ray Phiri, influences into his music. Mhlanga Sipho Mabuse, Mlunhgisi Gegane, and became renowned for his guitar skills, Busi Mhlongo. and worked with Zimbabwean acts Darius Brubeck Quartet The Darius Brubeck Quartet has acquired an Lion”, “Two And Four/To And Fro” and the 2015 enthusiastic following for its strong programs of release “Cathy’s Summer”. ‘More than half a South African jazz, Dave Brubeck hits and Darius’ century after [Dave Brubeck] invited listeners to original compositions. Playing to consistently start counting in odd numbers, the music has sold-out houses at regional festivals and clubs, lost none of its poise… Darius is as cultured including London’s Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express a pianist as his father.’ Clive Davis, The Times and 606 Jazz Clubs, the London-based Quartet’s ‘Darius, the eldest [of Dave Brubeck’s sons] and acoustic sound is melodic, spontaneous and most visually like his father, plays stylish piano rhythmically exciting. Audiences also appreciate and knows the score.’ Jack Massarik, Evening the talk between songs. The London-based Standard Quartet has toured Europe and the Middle East and recorded three CDs, “For Lydia and the 4 - Rainbow in Edinburgh The Music The Jazz Masters Melvin Peters & Arne Hiorth Melvin Peters started classical Kwazulu-Natal). He taught here piano lessons at the age of six for ten years and during this and continued through high time was awarded a scholarship school. Whilst studying towards to study at Harvard University in a Bachelor of Music degree 1998/9. In 2010, Peters joined at the University of Natal, he Norwegian trumpeter Arne began jazz piano lessons under Hiorth in a performance with the the tutelage of Darius Brubeck North Sea Big Band at National in 1983. After completing a Arts Festival in Grahamstown, Master of Music degree in South Africa. When Hiorth Jazz Performance in 1989, he visited South Africa in late 2015, was appointed lecturer in Jazz he joined Peters in a quartet for Studies at the University of a performance at the Rainbow Durban-Westville in 1990. (UN on 8 November. and UDW are now combined Pops Mohammed & Dave Reynolds under the name University of Pops Mohamed: South Africa’s He also co-created the TV show beloved “minister” of music, multi- Southern Rhythms. The show explores instrumentalist, jazz composer, the relationship between music and traditional music preservationist and spirituality in SA. global “Fucha-Rist” was featured Dave Reynolds is SA’s leading in the TV series 21 Icons. He’s steelpan player! He’s a SAMRO Award synonymous with the term South winning composer and also performs African Jazz legend. He’s a multi- with acoustic guitar. He’s toured award winning performer who’s toured and recorded all over the world with with artists like world music legends legends like Steve Newman, Hugh Andreas Vollenweider and Baaba Maal Masekela, the late Gito Baloi, Tony and recorded music with SA’s tribal Cox, the late Sipho Gumede, Paul people - the San, more commonly Hanmer and McCoy Mrubata. known as the Bushmen. Rainbow in Edinburgh - 5 The Music The International Guest Akale Wube In their 6 years of existence, Akalé into Ethiopian music, all the while Wubé has never stopped widening multiplying their collaborations the canvas onto which they lay with musicians and dancers from their music, which keeps becoming Ethiopia, Africa and Europe. Slowly richer and deeper just like the but surely, clocking in at around their primary source of inspiration: 200 concerts in Europe, Asia and the popular Ethiopian repertoire Africa, the band has become one of the 60s and 70s. The band of the world’s leading ambassadors started off covering music from the of Ethiopian groove. “Ethiopiques” series, after which they immersed themselves deeper 6 - Rainbow in Edinburgh The Pop-up Shebeen with Zulu Flavours Tastes of the Rainbow: The flame grilled spicy A-Flat Chicken, the Durban bunny-chow; uJeqe (traditional steamed bread); isibindi (fried ox-liver), usu (tripe); the multi-colored Rainbow salad and more, all served on Lezi’thebe, traditional hand carved wooden platters in true African tradition of communal eating, also known as ubuntu. Wherever possible, all products offered for sale will be sourced from Fair Trade suppliers or suppliers that work within the ethics of Fair Trade. A pop up art and gifts shop will offer community development as a project CD’s and mementos from the artists, of the Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust - The Rainbow t-shirts and calendars www.hillaids.org.za - incorporating Spaza Shop incorporating the images of Mayet as crafters drawn from the catchment well as prints of Makhanya’s paintings. area of the Rainbow’s regular clientele Also, traditional craft and design as well as other successful job creating from Kwazulu-Natal in partnership companies like Congo Rose - with organisations such as the Woza www.congorose.com. Moya Craft Store, a success story for Rainbow in Edinburgh - 7 A Visual Journey Exhibition: Reminiscing In Tempo Photographs by Rafs Mayet: Paintings by artist Zamani Makhanya images of Rainbow Restaurant since 1985 Rafique ‘Rafs’ Mayet born in Durban in 1955, was the first Zamani Makhanya, born in Durban in 1959, was first photographer to exhibit at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival in 1999. introduced to art at Amanzimtoti College, and after completing a Fine Art Learning the basics in 1983 by working in the darkroom of documentary degree at Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape, went on to form a collective of photographer Omar Badsha, he later became a member of ‘Afrapix’, a artists from the Durban area who called themselves “Third Eye Vision”. photographic collective that extensively covered the resistance to Apartheid This group rejected old artistic traditions and focused on the importance of during the dark days of the Eighties and early Nineties in South Africa.