Win Tickets ($76): Ladysmith Black Mambazo @ Aladdin Theater | 5-Time Grammy Award Winners
We are giving away a pair of tickets to Ladysmith Black Mambazo @ Aladdin Theater on March 26. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed March 18.
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
March 26, 2024
Doors 7PM, Show 8PM | $38 | All Ages
More info: etix.com
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR 97202
Let us tell you a story. An impossible to believe, yet, true story. Once upon a time there was a teenage boy working on his family farm in apartheid South Africa. The year was 1960. This boy loved to sing, in fact he loved to sing so much that he allowed himself an impossible dream. In his dream he would create a group of singers, from his family members, to sing traditional South African songs. His group would perform all over South Africa and they would become the greatest music group his country would ever know. How could such a dream come to a young farm boy in a country rife with hardship, violence and trouble? Well, Joseph Shabalala was this young farm boy and his dream would become Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
The year 2023 marks the 63rd anniversary of Joseph Shabalala forming Ladysmith Black Mambazo. His group would not only conquer all of South Africa, but would become a worldwide phenomenon, winning more GRAMMY Awards (Five), and receiving more GRAMMY Award nominations (Nineteen), than any World Music group in the history of recorded music.
During the dark years of South African Apartheid, Ladysmith Black Mambazo followed a path of peaceful protest through songs of hope and love. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, in 1990, he said that Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s music was a powerful message of peace that he listened to while in jail. When Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1993, he asked the group to join him at the ceremony. It was Mandela who called Ladysmith Black Mambazo “South Africa’s Cultural Ambassadors to the World.”
The group sings a traditional music style called isicathamiya (Is-Cot-A-Mee-Ya), which developed in the mines of South Africa. It was there that black workers were taken to work far away from their homes and families. Poorly housed and paid, the mine workers would entertain themselves, after a six-day work week, by singing songs into the wee hours on Saturday night and Sunday. When the miners returned to their homes, this musical tradition returned with them.
In the mid-1980s, American singer/songwriter Paul Simon famously visited South Africa and incorporated the group’s rich harmonies into his renowned Graceland album – a landmark recording considered seminal in introducing World Music to mainstream audiences. This brought the group to the attention of music lovers all over the world, the beginning of a global musical career that shows no sign of ending.
After leading his group for over fifty years and approaching his seventy-fifth birthday, Joseph Shabalala retired in 2014, handing the leadership to his three sons, Thulani, Sibongiseni and Thamsanqa Shabalala. Having joined their father’s group in 1993, their many years of training had prepared them in ways no others could be trained. Now, carrying their father’s dream into the future, the Shabalala Family continues the group’s success for the world to hear.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is Thulani Shabalala, Sibongiseni Shabalala, Thamsanqa Shabalala, Msizi Shabalala, Albert Mazibuko, Abednego Mazibuko, Mfanafuthi Dlamini, Pius Shezi and Sabelo Mthembu.
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This looks like fun! I’d love a chance to see some Grammy artists live!
I absolutely LOVE LBM. Hope to win!
Wow, that would be a great show. I hope you pick me!
My birthday is on March 26th and this would be a great way to celebrate!
What a great show this will be!!
Sounds like a good time!
Would so love to see this show!
Truly amazing band I’ve always wanted to see!
Heard their music but have never seen them (video nor live). Sounds like a fun music event to see. Tickets would be appreciated!
Would love to see them!
What a great venue for a killer group. Let’s Do It.
What we need right now is a powerful message of peace. Who better to experience it through than Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Thanks for the opportunity to see them and for The Aladdin Theater for continuously bringing them back!!
Would love to see this show!
Me win prize please
I’m excited to imagine being able to be in that crowd grooving and applauding the joyous sense of being transported back to my African roots by the incomparable, imitated but never duplicated sound of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. They’ve never missed a beat or tradition.
High energy good time! Yes, count me in!
Yes, please! I love this band.
I want to attend this!
Ladysmith Black Mambazo – yes please! I’d enjoy going with a friend!
Would love to see them!
This show looks awesome! I would love to see these WOMEN show how amazing they can be!
Yes, please, and thank you!
It’s our 30th wedding anniversary, and our mutual admiration for this band is the only thing we still agree on after all these years 🙂
My wife and I lived on Maui in the early 1990’s. It was very rare for performers with big followings to come to Maui, but Ladysmith Black Mambazo performed at a local hotel. My in-laws happened to be visiting and were excited to babysit their newborn granddaughter, so we were able to attend the show. Fast forward 31 years and my wife and I would LOVE to see LBM again!
I used to listen to them on CDs, back in the day. Now online. I would love to experience their music in person!
This would like a wonderful show which I hope I can attend 🙂
I grew up listening to them. They’re so good!
I love Ladysmith & would live to hear them again!
A fantastic group, at a great venue, with another amazing giveaway from PDX Pipeline. Perfect combo for me to win!
I’ve never seen them but would love to’
How cool