Roots Unleashed by Conquerors Reggae Band at the National Arts Festival
Conquerors Reggae Band is all about roots Reggae, promoting a positive message through their music. The band plays roots reggae music, including ska and rock reggae, but mostly focuses on the roots sound.
The Conquerors are unleashing the roots at this year’s national arts festival, presenting a 60 minutes performance of original roots reggae music as part of the Virtual Fringe Productions at this years National Arts Festival. The aim of this production is to take roots reggae music to the people in the comfort of their homes, their safe space and to reach a wider audience on a national level, hence the concept roots unleashed. Like many other musicians and artists, reggae musicians have also been hard hit since the implementation of the National Disaster Management Act end March 2020. Since then, it has not been easy for the band, but the Conquerors has managed to remain resilient and secured some gigs during lockdown like the V&A Waterfronts take the stage series and performing consistently at Mojo Market & Legit Lit, where they backed artist like Ras Jabulani(ZW) and Empress Naphtali.
The band also participated in Iziko Museums South Africa Enduring Covid project where they highlighted the impact of covid on the arts with a focus on the impact it had on the band. The band is growing form strength to strength and continues to push the message of one love, peace and unity through their original roots’ reggae music.
Roots Unleashed is a pre-recorded performance of original roots reggae music performed by the Conquerors Reggae Band at Gallery 44 and Theatre on Long.
About The Fringe
The Fringe programme blends innovation and originality as seasoned pros and newcomers unite to bring an uncurated programme of shows to Makhanda. From day one of the Festival, some of these shows will receive the coveted Standard Bank Ovation Awards, so be sure to keep some time in your schedule open so you don’t miss the hits that have people talking.
The Fringe: Artists set their own prices for shows – your ticket purchase directly supports these independent artists
Bookings are open for Roots Unleashed on #vfringe2021
Link to Tickets: https://nationalartsfestival.co.za/show/roots-unleashed-by-conquerors-reggae-band/
The vFringe are video on demand shows, so can be watched at any time that suits you. All shows on the vFringe are sold as individual tickets. Browse the vFringe event page, choose “Roots Unleashed”, add the show to your basket by clicking the ‘Buy Ticket’ button. Checkout and you will receive a confirmation email. Go to the event page and click on the play icon on the video window. (Make sure you are logged in to the site.)
You can only purchase the tickets for the online event on the NAF website and you can pay for the online tickets using VISA credit/debit card, Mastercard credit/debit card, Instant EFT, SnapScan, through PayGate our payment gateway.
If you are a first-time visitor to the website, click on LOG IN, and fill in your name and chosen password in the registration box. You will be sent a confirmation email. You can also add shows to your basket without being registered, and your username and password will be created for you during the checkout process. These will be emailed to you with your order.
- TICKET PRICE: R65.00
- GENRE: Roots Reggae Music
- DURATION (MINUTES): 60 mins
- AGES: All
- RELEASE DATE: July 10, 2021 00:01 – July 31, 2021 23:59
- TICKETS: https://nationalartsfestival.co.za/show/roots-unleashed-by-conquerors-reggae-band/