Dial Afrika and the Fem Belling Quintet

Get ready for South African rhythms in the North Store Temple Emanuel on Saturday 8th November. Our own presenter Patrick Jonathan (also known as PJ), who does the radio show Dial Afrika, will go into detail of what we can expect of this event.

All we can reveal so far is that The Fem Belling Quintet featuring Marcus Wyatt is going to show skills at Chatswood Avenue. The project is called Plus Mark Ginsburg’s South African, and consists of the two musicians Marcus Wyatt and Fem Belling.

Marcus Wyatt is a trumpet player who is a part of a new generation of South African musicians. He has performed around the globe, and worked with impressive array of musicians, from Manu Dibango, Abdullah Ibrahim and Miriam Makeba to Carlo Mombelli, Courtnet Pine and The Fra Fra Sound. Marcus Wyatt’s first two albums is ”Gathering” and ”Africans in Space” feature South Africa’s finest Jazz musicians.

Fem Belling is an South African born Jazz vocalist and violinist, and is emerging as one of Australia’s formidable and exiting new Jazz performers. Acclaimed for her recent, self written and performed, musical homepage to Blossom Dearie in ”Dear Blossom…” she was also nominated for the Green Room Award for Best Leading Actress in the musical ”Genesis to Broadway”. She enyojed a international career as a leading lady in London’s west End and has performed for Her Majesty the Queen at the Royal Variety.

These two artist will be accompanied on Australia wide tour by an accomplished band comprised of Fem’s legendary Jazz pianist father, Howard Belling, and her brother Zvi on acoustic bass. They are joined by long time collaborations Nick Lester on saxophones and Brian Abrahams, a Cape Town drummer who was for a long time part of Abdullah Ibrahim’s rhythm section.

For more information about this exotic event, listen to PJ’s show Dial Afrika on Wednesday at 9.00 am.