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Batuki Music Society and Gladstone World present Tichaona Maredza Quartet at Gladstone Hotel

Toronto Event Date: Fri, May 07, 2010

07:00 PM

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west queen west, beaconsfield
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1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1J6

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Batuki Music Society and Gladstone World present Tichaona Maredza Quartet

Batuki Music Society and Gladstone World present Zimbabwean Folk featuring Tichaona Maredza Quartet on Fri, May 7, 2010 at the Melody Bar from 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm.

Also featuring DJ Apollo, one of the top African music DJ’s in the city with a diverse collection of popular and classic hits.

The World Concerts takes place the first Friday of each month from 7 – 10 pm. in the Melody Bar at the Gladstone Hotel located at 1214 Queen Street West. The concerts are free events. The series features a diverse lineup of performers with a strong focus on African music.

Tichaona Daniel Maredza is a Zimbabwean born self taught musician whose music is an acoustic guitar based fusion of Zimbabwean contemporary rhythms and afrojazz music powered by messages of inspiration, hope, love and awareness on the different issues affecting mankind.

This talented multi-instrumentalist plays the acoustic guitar, drums, keyboards, mbira(nyunga nyunga), marimba and a wide range of percussion instruments. He is a singer and songwriter currently working on his music production skills. Tichaona performs with a group known as the Tich Maredza Quartet with Larry Lewis on lead guitar, Andrew Mark on drums and Tichaona Gombiro on bass. He also sings and plays drum for Masaisai, the popular Zimbabwean mbira and dance music based in Toronto.

Tichaona has released two albums, the first called Eternity Music Volume One, that was recorded in Australia in 2002. The second album, Ndinzweiwo, was recorded in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in 2004. Tichaona has shared the stage with the legendary Zimbabwean musician Oliver Mtukudzi who is one of his greatest influences for his music. Tichaona performed as the opening act on one of Oliver Mtukudzi’s tours in the US and Canada. He also joined Oliver and the Black Spirits onstage as a guest percussionist.

www.myspace.com/maredza

batukimusic@yahoo.com
www.facebook.com/BatukiMusicSociety
www.myspace.com/batukimusic



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