Antos Stella

“I am always honoured and grateful to be able to share my music with those who relentlessly support me. I am so excited to be on stage and experience an intimate and magical night with Joburg. The audience can expect an evening of pure Afro soul and some music with good rhythm”. Says Ami Faku

Bassline Live at the Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City, Presents

An Intimate & Magical Night, with, Superstar, Multi-award winning Songstress 

AMI FAKU 

with Support Artists Nhlonipho & Kekelingo 

Powered by Vth Season

& In Partnership with Gold Reef City’s The Lyric Theatre.  

Bassline Live is excited to start 2024’s music journey on Saturday 2nd March, being the year we celebrate, alongside our democracy, 30 years of ‘In Music We Trust’, with one of the most important voices to come out of our beautiful country in the last decade, the rare musical gem from the Eastern Cape, Ami Faku, multi-award winning, singer, song writer, who writes & performs hit after hit, such as ‘Into Ingawe’, ‘Imali’, ‘Abalele’ Inde Lendlela’ and many more. 

Joining her for this exclusive one-night event are two phenomenal voices, both known for possessing immense talent and rapidly rising as stars. The supporting acts for the evening include Nhlonipho, a versatile music producer, singer, and pianist hailing from eSwatini, who has just released a new EP titled ‘Selemo’ alongside Kekelingo who is an exceptional singer-songwriter and accomplished drummer. Kekelingo is currently making significant strides as a solo artist, having just released his EP titled ‘Pula’, and having left his mark as the drummer and “backing singer” of the Soweto-based band, ‘The Muffinz’.  

March 2^nd  is most definitely a date night – a night to spoil yourself, your Bae, a friend or two and to dress to the nines, head off into the evening, ready to experience Ami Faku and her support acts in an exclusively intimate & magical way, with the stunning Lyric Theatre’s opulent décor, incredible stage, lighting & sound as the backdrop. 

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NAKHANE Live at The Lyric Theatre, in collaboration with 2022 SBYA Winner for Visual Arts, Lady Skollie

Nakhane, the multi-talented, award-winning, London based, singer, songwriter, novelist and actor will return home for a very special show in honour of their latest album ‘Bastard Jargon’ and more. There will be a visual collaboration of note between Standard Bank Young Artist Of The Year for Visual Arts Award Winner, Lady Skollie, and Nakhane. Bassline Live’s Brad Holmes says this collaboration will “Blow the audiences visual and audio minds away.” Also performing on the 24th are artists from Msaki’s ALTBLK community. Muneyi recently having released his acclaimed EP  ‘For All The Boys I Like’ is billed as the Support Act for the evening, with promising singer Gemma Fassie opening the show. “The Live at The Lyric Series of annual concerts are always unique, in that they bring together super talents to create one of a kind live music performances, such as the Sun El Musician and Friends with The Anchored Sound Orchestra, conducted by Ofentse Pitse last year and Msaki’s Delta Love Experience this March, which opened the 2023 annual series. Both of these were sold out concerts! To have the collaboration of Nakhane, who in my opinion is one of the most super talented individuals on our beautiful planet, and uber talented feminist, activist, artist Lady Skollie’s artworks involved, I am so privileged to witness and work with them both” Says Paige Holmes from Bassline.

This is one show that is NOT to be missed!

Tickets are available through Computicket from R250 upwards.

This show is sponsored by the SAMPRA Development Fund (SDF) and Bassline. The SDF is a Corporate Social Investment arm of The South African Music Performance Rights Association (SAMPRA) that was established to meaningfully contribute to the development and sustainability of its members, music promoters, and the entire South African Music industry.

The Soil returns to Bassline Live at the Lyric Theatre. 

The Soil returns to the annual Bassline Live at the Lyric Theatre series on Friday, 3 November 2023, from 20:00.

#TheSoilReturnsToTheLyric

The Soil last performed at The Bassline Live at The Lyric Theatre in 2019, and it was a SOLD-OUT show. Bassline has been waiting for the right moment for them to return, and it has arrived! 

“The Soil is one of many incredible South African talents that Bassline has been fortunate to work with in the last 29 years, and we have watched them grow. We are delighted to have them back on the Bassline Live promoted stage at the beautiful Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City,” says Brad Holmes, Bassline Founder.   

New member alert! 

‘The Songstress’ Theo Matshoba will be stepping in as an official group member after Buhlebendalo Mda’s decision to embark on her solo career. Matshoba’s story with The Soil is a case of manifesting a moment. In 2012, she posted on Facebook, “The Soil is the dopest group on earth at the moment, for me! But, eish, they need one more member, and I have someone in mind.” 

Fast forward to 2016, when Buhlebendalo took a sabbatical from The Soil, the group advertised for auditions, and Theo Matshoba applied and landed the job. She filled in so well during that time that it was a no-brainer to call on her again to complete the trio’s sounds with her beautiful voice.   

The Soil re-imagined. 

“Bassline Live at The Lyric Theatre is like returning home for us. We have performed at that venue for The Soil family and are always inspired by how they have received us. This time, it will be different, as we will also give a sneak preview of new material from our upcoming album. As for ‘The Songstress’, all we can say is that you should wait to be amazed, it’s The Soil re-imagined”, said The Soil. 

Experience the musical magic we know, brothers Ntsika’ Fana-tastic’ Ngxanga and Beatboxer Luphindo Ngxanga are known for, this time with a new member, on Friday, 3 November, at The Lyric at Gold Reef City Casino from 20:00. Tickets start at R350 and can be bought from Computicket.

Msaki’s Delta Love Experience Presented by Oneshushuday Concerts at Bassline Live at The Lyric Theatre 

On Friday 3^rd & Saturday 4th March 2023, staged in an intimate setting, Msaki will present a themed sonic experience of her catalogue, which will include material from her award-winning albums and collaborations. Journeying through the complex sentimentality of love and heartbreak, exploring rates of change and ways of becoming within this flux.

The Delta Love Experience, named for the second track off of her Platinumb Heart Open record, is a clear-eyed dive into the depths of difficulty that define what it means to love. Honest, open and tender, the show leans into the metaphysical, romantic and powerful meanings of ‘delta’: the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet; a code word in communication; denoting variation, change and difference in mathematics; and an openness to change in spirituality. 

 The Delta Love Experience is part of this journey, acting as a bridge to SBYA (Standard Bank Young Artist) work at NAF (National Arts Festival) as her final show before her hiatus. 

Honest, dealing with difficult, leaning into the complex, and foregrounding the tender, the show explores these meanings as a motif, threaded through the music – navigating the universal experience of love, our navigation of it, and its effect on us. Acknowledging different shapes of love, Msaki flames the courage it takes to surrender to love in flux, alongside artists whose work explores the same, in vulnerable sensitivity. This show promises to be a unique sonic and visual experience, with stellar musicians making up her line-up. The artist has only one instruction for the audience: ‘come tender’.

“you’ve held me in high regard

loving you from afar is hard

this affinity traverses time

and questions minds

creating shrines

a force of change

a breath

a flame”

 Delta Love, Msaki

Sun El Musician’s hits to get an orchestral touch

It has always been Sun El Musician’s dream to do his music with a live orchestra and Bassline Live at Lyric on Friday 2 September is set to make this a reality.

An orchestra conducted by a woman who is a first

Not only does the Bassline Live at Lyric theatre lineup have amazing artists such as Msaki, Simmy and more, it also features the first black South African woman to conduct and own an all-black orchestra,Ofentse Pitse.

She believes this show is important because it is “work that requires immense collaboration, particularly through a music ensemble which can lose traction because of its intense economic requirements. Classical and choral music is then deeply affected as a result, leaving musicians who spend hours on end refining and mastering their craft, not easily employable.” Through this collaboration she’s “using popular culture to popularize ensembled musical expressions such as these, creating value and demand for such art experiences.” She adds that this is critical for creating a sustainable ecosystem that will improve the economic health of ensembled music.

An unlikely combination

The program is part of the The Music In Africa Live project which is supported by The German Federal Foreign Office, Siemens Stiftung and Goethe Institut. It is also done in conjunction with artists service company Platoon.

“The team at Bassline are bravely bringing together dance music and the world of orchestra. This unlikely combination has us very excited not to miss it,” enthuses Violet Maila of Music in Africa.

“Bassline thanks Music In Africa Foundation grant for supporting the live music industry ecosystem, by awarding proceeds to support this project. We are so excited to be presenting this collaboration at a time where we are back to full houses for the first time in 2 and a half years. What a way to celebrate!” says Brad Holmes, Bassline Founder.

Tickets available from Computicket from R250.