Luyolo Lenga will be performing live at the 2019 Maitisong Festival as an extension to his promotional tour of his EP, Siphiwo Sam! After a series of successful performances in Cape Town, he comes to grace the Maitisong Theatre with a soulful show that will have our spirits surrender to the ancient sounds of his musical prowess.
Luyolo is a composer, author and arranger of a fusion style of music that pays homage to the isiXhosa language, accessing ancestral sounds from ancient stringed and percussion instruments. The primary overlay is the use of a variety of ancient bows, uhadi, umrhubhe, umakhwenyane, all hand crafted and mastered by Luyolo. Once the percussive and ancestral stringed i