On 7 March at 20h00 the Woordfees in collaboration with the Endler Concert Series presents Dizu Plaatjies and Ibuyambo. At this unique concert they launch their SAMA (South African Music Awards) award-winning album entitled Ubuntu – the common string. This album received the award in 2016 for the Best African Adult Album.

Ibuyambo has become a landmark music group, exploding onto the South African music scene with its traditional and neo-traditional sounds, all of which are channelled through bandleader Dizu Plaatjies’s distinct idiomatic sensibility.

The group which is primarily focused on the use of African percussion instruments pushes and manipulates the limits of these musical tools to create different, new, and interesting sounds. Plaatjies’s interest in African musical traditions has led the band into exploring rhythms from countries like Zimbabwe, Congo, and Mozambique. These rhythms infuse Plaatjies’s own compositions and lyrics to create a signature acoustic sound. The resulting music is both meditative and full of gusto, continuing African folk music’s tradition of bringing people together.