The Gauteng Big Band Jazz Festival on Saturday 10 September is being visited by the A-list of South African Jazz musicians who will be performing under the name alumni|city.

Jo’burg’s Linder Auditorium resounded with passion and music on Saturday night, when the two 2016 SAMRO Overseas Scholarships winners were chosen.

Thursday was SAMRO Foundation’s day of winning big for music and the arts. Not only did four young musicians make it to the SAMRO Overseas Scholarships finals, the Concerts SA programme, supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was nominated for two Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) Awards

This is a tongue-in-cheek media release is meant to chase your blues, reds and yellow fevers away.

The SAMRO Foundation has announced the six Jazz and six Western Art Music semi-finalists who will compete in August for a shot at South Africa’s most alluring postgraduate music study award: two R200 000 scholarships to further their studies and professional development abroad.

Click here to view the May 2016 SAMRO Foundation Newsletter

In the past year previous winners of the SAMRO Overseas Scholarships competition have been making waves as their careers go from strength to strength.