Sereetsi & The Natives return with good tidings
Friday, July 05, 2019
Sereetsi collaborated with Kenyan poet and author Mawiyoo
They return from Nairobi, Kenya, where they wowed music lovers with their unique brand of the four-string guitar-driven contemporary folk jazz. Testimony to Sereetsi & The Natives’ growing international profile, the Kenyan outing came a few days after playing the Whitsun Heritage Festival in Hungary on June 9.
“Nairobi was awesome! Hearing the crowd singing along to our Setswana lyrics and even crying ‘we want more’ at the end of our set, was the best feeling ever,” the band’s frontman, Tomeletso Sereetsi told Arts & Culture.
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