The Toyota Music Festival Makes the Jol Vol 🎉

The Toyota Music Festival is part of the overall Woordfees festival, a celebration of the arts held annually in Stellenbosch, South Africa. With over 40 unique productions in 2023, the music festival features a wide range of genres, from cabaret and jazz to rock, rumba, and pop.

Whether you're a fan of big open-air concerts or intimate cabaret shows, there's something for everyone at the Toyota Music Festival. And the best part is, you can support the arts while you're having fun.

Did you know that Toyota, Heineken Beverages, Standard Bank, Naspers, MultiChoice, and EasyEquities are all proud sponsors of the Woordfees festival? You may check these brands out on our platform.

So come along and celebrate the arts at the Toyota Music Festival -  have fun with great music, delicious food, and a vibrant atmosphere.

Here's a taste of the joy and atmosphere of this musical Stellenbosch smorgasbord.

Enjoy great sounds with friends and family in the glow of a warm sunset and later under the stars at the four big open-air concerts at the Van der Stel Sports Grounds.

There’s an affordable ticket for every contemporary music taste: Nagskof Vol. 1 (with Fokofpolisiekar, Desmond and the Tutus, Majozi etc.), Spoegwolf, Uit volle Bosch (with Van Der Aven, Zaan Sonnekus, Gian Groen, Jan Blohm and Die Heuwels Fantasties) and Jol & Jive – WOW turns 20! (with Tribal Echo, Early B, Mango Groove, Dr Victor & The Rasta Rebels and others). 

At the Oude Libertas Amphitheatre, two highlights from the 2022 Music Indaba return: Rock & Rumba (featuring Arno Carstens and Sima Mashazi with a blazing Latin-jazz orchestra) and Hip-pop, Bop & Pop (featuring Jack Parow, Early B, Kurt Darren, Loki Rothman and The Blake Hellaby Quartet).

The Oude Libertas also offers a treat for jazz lovers – Effervescence: Xamisa, Ikapa, Kaapstad (feauturing Leslie Kleinsmith, Babalwa Mentjies, Alvin Dyers, Jason “Hakiesdraad” Hartman and the SU Jazz Band led by Felicia Lesch).

If you’d like to sample some new music, both Neil Sandilands and Valiant Swart are playing material form their latest albums in The Daisy Jones Bar, the same restaurant-theatre where Anton Goosen will perform Liedjieboer 77 Not Out.

Other shows at the Daisy Jones Bar include Augusta Zietsman, Die Kaappunters (with Riku & Jackie Lätti, Churchil Naudé and others), Kaapse djez, goema en beyond (with spellbinding jazz musicians under the direction of Ramon Alexander). Festivalgoers will also find the Worldplay sessions here. An exciting show where musicians and poets play, improvise and create in real time, with Xabilso Vili, Toast Coetzer, Jerome Rex, Jaco van der Merwe and many more. 

The programme also offers intimate cabaret shows and performances from accomplished singer-songwriters, with appearances from Amanda Strydom, André Schwartz, Elsabé Zietsman, Koos van der Merwe, Luna Paige, Marcia Moon, Nic de Jager, Niël Rademan, Petronel Baard and Tarryn Lamb. A highlight here, is Lipkap se tongklap: A rap cabaret with  Frazer Barry, Jason Hartman, Kerishnie Pheiffer, Deniel Barry and Earl Witbooi. Skoonveld, by Frieda van den Heever, which won the 2022 Woordtrofee Award for Best Solo Contemporary Music Production returns to the festival.

Tickets are available at Quicket. You can start exploring the programme and download the complete English festival guide as PDF here.

EasyEquities and WOW join hands
 EasyEquities is partnering with the WOW (Words Open Worlds) Project to contribute to WOW bursaries for first-generation students and to encourage young people to take charge of their financial future by starting to use the EasyEquities app.

WOW is an empowerment project of the Woordfees which celebrates their 20th birthday this year. WOW facilitates creative programmes focused on promoting language, literature and the arts in schools and communities to broaden learners and educators’ horizons. The project also provides prospective students with information about tertiary education, and WOW Bursaries from Stellenbosch University are awarded to talented candidates.

The WOW EasyEquities initiative invites the public to create a profile on the EasyEquities app by using a special QR code. For each profile that is created via the code, EasyEquities provides the new user with R50 for investment, while also donating an additional R50 to the WOW Bursary. 

For more information, click here.

Support supporters of the arts
If you love the arts as much as we do, you might want to take a look at the sponsors of the Woordfees. You can buy shares (or portions of a share) for Toyota, Heineken Beverages, Standard Bank, Naspers, MultiChoice or EasyEquities (The Purple Group) via the EasyEquities app.



 

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