Foreign performers expected in the country for the Green Concert on May 15 will arrive a few days earlier than the event date so as to have time to mingle with local artistes as well as prepare collaborations.
By Tinashe Sibanda
“There is one collaboration that we shall do together as Friends of the Green ambassador and this will require the foreign artistes to be here a couple of days earlier,” said The Green ambasaddor Derick Mpofu.
He said the City of Harare had a vision to achieve world-class city status by 2025 which was known as the Vision 2025 and their theme for this year, It Begins With You, It Begins With Me’sought to include the citizens in the whole equation.
Mpofu added that this would help to bring out the relevance of environmental etiquette, proper waste disposal, water conservation methods that most world-class cities were currently practicing.
This year, the Green Concert seems to have grown bigger and better with the inclusion of renowned artistes Ringo Madlingozi and Winnie Khumalo from South Africa, together with Nigerian superguitarist Kunle Ayo. Local artistes expected to perform include a vast mixture of talents like Alexio Kawara, Rute Mbangwa, Ras Caleb, Esther Mukazika, Pax Gomo and many surprise artistes, among them Wensy Mupostori.
“The Green Concert seeks to bring together the cream among artistes and influence them to adopt other socially relevant issues other than the usual themes of love, violence, sex etc that are mostly common in music,” said Mpofu.
He said this move sought to mainstream environmental issues. Mpofu said he was confident that the greater an artiste was profiled the more attention they would get and the more they would use the platforms to address important issues including those affecting the environment and its people.
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Last year, the Green Concert brought South African musician Zahara in a sold out show that had a greater emphasis on fundraising, which saw organisers deviate from the core business of environmental awareness to focusing on donating to Tokwe-Mukosi flood victims.
“This year we are going back to our roots of using music to transform cities through music. We shall pave the way for full transformation of Harare back to being the Sunshine City,” said Mpofu.
