Culture Spears brings live to Tsodilo Hills cultural night
Monday, November 27, 2023 | 170 Views |
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As it is a norm, the legendary local traditional music and song group led by Kabelo Mogwe, Culture Spears, gave the audience a memorable and splendid performance.
Their performance started after the night's speakers. After treating guests to a few songs and dance performances, Mogwe held a dance competition where different local traditional groups that came to perform danced to Culture Spears songs. Amongst those dances included the Sebirwa, Seperu, Herero and tsutsube dances. After a few dance competitions where he invited different community cultural groups, he called all interested revellers on stage for a song and dance. His long performance had set the parting mood to a number of revellers.
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