Zolani Mahola & The Black Cat Bones

The Runaway Train Cult band will open the show. Highly popular in their own right, the band plays an infectious “Gypsy Folk Jazz” groove that will ideally compliment the evening’s main performers. Dan also brings his many years as a photographer, filmmaker and now SAMA award-winning producer to the party in his role of Across The Bridge Sessions curator.

The stage is dark, purples and blues, a large gauze screen flickers with primitive images, and on stage, bare chested drummers start thundering out a badass Bo Diddley beat, maracas start doing their rattlesnake thing, a wild man in porcupine headdress wails into his harmonica as the band, brass section and all, launches into the baddest version of Not Fade Away this side of Bardskeedersbos…enter Zolani Mahola.

Across The Bridge Sessions are series of concerts curated by producer Dan Roberts of Stoep Studio and staged by the Bassline, Newtown. Inspired by the iconic Mandela Bridge that crosses from Braamfontein into Newtown it’s as much about physically bringing people across the bridge as it is about bridging the gaps between musical genres.

Each event is structured around a theme and will feature a mix of some of the most influential and emerging talents interacting with each other across a variety of musical genres. The Sessions will be accompanied by food that reflects the theme and theatrical staging to transport the audience to the world of music we are creating.

The very first Across The Bridge Session will be presented by Jagermeister and feature a line-up nobody would have possibly imagined – the explosive four piece rock outfit THE BLACK CAT BONES together with ZOLANI MAHOLA of Freshlyground fame.

Tickets are limited. R150 per head, available online at www.pnptickets.co.za or https://www.facebook.com/basslinejozi/app_277112852299042