Masicule is a celebration of Makhanda’s local choirs and voices in its seventh year as one of the city’s cultural highlights.
This year’s featured artist is multi award winning Eastern Cape Jazz sensation, Nomfundo Xaluva who was a head girl and singer at Victoria Girl's School. She joins singers from Mary Waters, Graeme, DSG, SAC, Nombulelo, Kingswood, Ntsika, PJ Olivier, Nathaniel Nyaluza, VGHS, Khutliso Daniels, the Rhodes Chamber Choir, Cathedral Choir, Attivo Choir, 6 SAI Army choir, Kwantu and the Abancedisi Choir.
Included items are Bayathetha (an original song by Nomfundo Xaluva), the well-known township jazz song, Thula Ndivile, arranged by Gareth Walwyn, and an anti-violence medley made up of the John Lennon/Yoko Ono classic, Imagine and Kirk Franklin’s I Need you to Survive, also arranged by Gareth Walwyn.