Skyjack wraps up their national tour and launch of their debut CD, with three performances over the weekend of 16 – 18 September.
Skyjack is an award winning collaborative band of five jazz musicians from South Africa and Switzerland.
- The three SA musicians are well known to local audiences, with Shane Cooper on double bass, Kyle Shepherd on piano, and Kesivan Naidoo on drums, all highly respected artists with various prestigious credits to their names, including the Standard Bank Young Artist Award. This tour will be the first time Naidoo performs on home soil since completing his Masters Degree at the Berklee College of Music in Boston this year.
- The Swiss musicians are some of the most sought-after jazz musicians in Switzerland – Marc Stucki on tenor saxophone, and Andreas Tschopp on trombone. Andreas is currently on a 3 month residency in South Africa, and has already collaborated with Carlo Mombelli, and Herbie Tsoaeli. Marc Stucki runs a small concert venue in Berne called the Sonarraum U64, and is a co-founder of the festival Jazzwerkstatt Bern.
Skyjack’s first shows together were a on South African tour in 2013, leading up to the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown for Shane Cooper’s Young Artist Award showcase. Since then they have done two tours in Switzerland, and in 2015 won the prestigious BeJazz TransNational competition, bringing them back to perform at BeJazz Winterfestival in 2016 in Berne.
Skyjack’s SA tour is supported by Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council and Concerts SA.
Concerts in Cape Town are on
- Friday 16 September at the Reeler Theatre, Rondebosch Boys’ High School (tickets available on Quicket)
- Saturday 17 September at the Blah Blah Bar in Kloof Street, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town 8001 – tickets available at the door
- Sunday 18 September at KwaSec 52 NY 138, Gugulethu, Cape Town 7751 as part of the Jazz Heritage Festival – tickets available at the door
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