No one watches Digwana exhibition

| Thursday December 2, 2010 00:00

However despite the top notch performances rendered, the concerts dubbed Digwana and friends will go down as one of the poorly attended events at Maitisong. By the time the first act went for recess there were hardly 20 people at the 500-seater theatre.

Besides the fact that the concert started more than 45 minutes late, the performances on the evening were in a class of their own. Digwana opened the night with three diverse and stimulating pieces of setapa, phathisi and tsutsube, much to the delight of the  paltry audience.

Then David Slater, well known for staging refined classical music, was on the piano playing for his budding classical musicians, before the most entertaining folklore guitarist at this year's Heritage Month awards, Solly Sebotso, delivered his popular hit, Pidipidi. There was also a special performance by the acrobatic Mophato dance troupe, whose energetic displays left the few fans asking for more, but their opening set was just for a minute!

Mophato, along with the Botswana Society for the Arts are currently fund raising to raise half a million Pula to stage a world cup musical they last performed in  England in collaboration with Kora Song Radio, a multi-racial live band based in the United Kingdom.