Time to give traditional music its due.(Entertainment)

From: Pretoria News (South Africa) | Date: May 20, 2008 | Copyright information

BYLINE: Kgomotso Moncho

Fact: Traditional music does not get the credit it deserves in SA. But the fight for its preservation has not ended. It's now moving to theatre.

Ancestral Grooves, a groundbreaking production featuring the Mzantsi Traditional Orchestra (MTO) opens today, at the Old Mutual Theatre on the Square for a short run.

It's directed by singer/songwriter Laurie Levine. Arrangements are by some of the country's renowned composers, musicians and indigenous instrumentalists as well as Pops Mohamed, Anthony Caplan, George Gobingca Mxadana, Ross Johnson and ...

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