Anga Makubalo with Luthando Shosha at last year’s festival.
Mpumalanga will come alive this September as the 5th installment of MPUCA Annual 60s Weekend, The event attracts a mélange of ethnicities from across the country, young and old to Nelspruit. “We are quite thrilled at the success the festival has enjoyed over the past four years and this year is going to be even better as we feature the SAMA awards Winner Khuli Chana and the Musical Legend ‘ZOLA 7’ to head our strong line-up of more than 40 Artists,” says Sam Sekgota, Managing Director of Molite Productions.
The MPUCA 60s Weekend in Nelspruit will kick off on Friday, 27th September with a high-energy Pre Party at Cappellos featuring Naves and SPHE, Mpako, Ocean and others. For the lovers of HouseMusic we have a second dance floor still at Cappellos with Dj @Work Vinny Da Vinci & Christos, Fistaz Mixwell, TrevorDee, China, Glen Lewis, ThePrince, Nasty Nev and TrendyL as well as some of the top club DJs in the country. Saturday, 28th September will be the Main Sixties Party at Mbombela Stadium Precinct with Dj Blackcoffee, Fresh, Sbu, Ganyani, Sumbody and others and on Sunday, 29th September the weekend winds down at The Mbombela Picnic & Braai area with sultry and soulful sounds at the popular Sunday Soul Session presented by the METRO FM’s Paul Mtirara, Eddie Zondi, Sweetmike and UnkleMdu headlined by top Afro-Jazz Artist like Mafikizolo, TheSoil, JazielBrothers, Zahara, Ntando to be flanked by local artists Tsepe and many more.
Tickets are available at Computicket.