Posts tagged southern african bows
Cara Stacey

Cara Stacey is a South African musician, composer and researcher. She is a pianist and plays southern African musical bows (umrhubhe, uhadi, makhweyane). Cara holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town and SOAS (London). Her doctoral research investigated practice and innovation in the music of the makhweyane musical bow in the Kingdom of eSwatini.

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Thandeka Mfinyongo

Thandeka Louisa Mfinyongo was born and raised in Nyanga East, Cape Town. She holds aPerformer’s Diploma in Music and an Advanced Diploma in African Music, both from the University of Cape Town. She specialises in two Xhosa instruments, uhadi (gourd/calabash bow) and umrhubhe (mouth-bow) and is currently doing her Master’s in Music Performance at SOAS University of London, specialising in kora instrument.

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