CHIPINGE-BASED Talent Falls shrugged off stiff competition to emerge as winners of the 2014 Chibuku Road to Fame Manicaland provincial finals held in Rusape on Saturday at Vhengere beerhall.
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They are now set to represent the province at the national finals in the capital at a date yet to be announced.
For their effort, they walked away with $1 000.
Neighbours’ Sons from Mutare came second and they were duly rewarded with $500, while Mutare Polytechnic scooped the third prize and went home $300 richer.
Leader of the group Joseph Bhasera was ecstatic on winning the first prize, adding that they were now looking forward to also winning at the national finals.
“It was a tough competition, but we are generally happy for winning the first prize. It is sheer hard work and thanks to God for finally rewarding us. We have been taking part in this event for the past years, but without winning the first prize,” he said.
“Thanks to Culture Fund for pledging instruments to us because we managed to conduct our rehearsals without hiccups. Before that, we were hiring instruments and we were charged per hour, but this has since changed.”
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National Arts Council of Zimbabwe Manicaland provincial manager Jonah Muchayi said he was very happy with the level of competition, saying Talent Falls was a talented group that would not just make numbers at the national finals.
Muchayi said he was generally excited with the level of the competition as every group performed extremely well and he believed that it was very tough to choose the winner.
“From the Makoni community, the turnout was very impressive. It had been about four years since we had hosted such an event in Rusape. And one thing I was happy about is that we had groups from remote areas who participated in the event and it’s good for exposing their talent,” he added.
Muchayi said the winners were originally from Chipinge, but these days they were conducting their rehearsals in Mutare.
