Chiwoniso

July 14, 2010 - 08:30 PM

Price: 32 $

Cabaret du Mile-End

5240 avenue du Parc (corner Fairmount) Montréal, QC H2V 4G7

514-563-1395

www.lemileend.org

You can also purchase your tickets at the main box office.

Description of the concert:

This is recorded for broadcast by CBC radio 2.

Initiated at an early age to her country’s musical culture but also endowed with a childhood abroad to the pulse of western melodies from the most traditional to the most modern, this artist with a commitment to social justice offers a style of music imbued both with the spirituality linked to the mbira (finger xylophone), of which she is a virtuoso, and the vigour of soul, reggae and R&B.

Chiwoniso (Zimbabwe)

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Biography of the artist:

Chiwoniso was born in 1976 in Washington State. His family was then living in the United States, with her father studying ethnomusicology in Seattle. She spent the first seven years of her life there but, even while far from her native Zimbabwe, she soaked up the music of her country. Both her parents were musicians, with her father playing the mbira (a sort of thumb piano) and her mother ...