The Hansa Festival Of Legends was no doubt one of the
biggest events for 2013 so far. The festival attracted people from all over
Gauteng and boarding provinces, everyone who is anyone
was there: musicians, celebrities, socialites and the general public.
Aside from a few fights that occurred, everyone else had a
wonderful time.
The festival had different stages so unfortunately I can
only speak of the performances I saw on the main stage.
Zakes Bantwini was
great as usual but had to perform in the rain.
The biggest hoo-ha of the night was Zaki Ibrahim who was
acting out the late queen of dance Lebo Mathosa. Despite the horrible sound, the
crowd did not react well to Ibrahim.
Zaki Ibrahim is the daughter of the popular Jazz maestro
Abdullah Ibrahim and a 2013 SAMA nominee, but unfortunately not everyone knows
who she is.
She is only popular to a few and judging from the audience’s
reaction, the Hansa drinkers clearly wanted Lebo Mathosa herself or someone
they knew to play her role.
I was fortunate enough to chat to Zaki Ibrahim 2 days before
the festival and I spoke to her about Lebo Mathosa and what she had planned to
do on stage. So from where I was in the crowd, she sang well but due to
technical problems the sound was not clear. She looked the part and sounded the
part but the dancing did not convince me, it lacked the Mathosa energy and sex
appeal.
The sound problems continued with Thembi Seete who danced
the night away on stage either not realizing her mic was off or she was instructed
to carry on singing. Nonetheless we’ll forgive her too cause she looked
beautiful.
The performance of the night in my bigheaded opinion went to
Kelly Khumalo, she was an amazing Brenda Fassie with her diva-rish tendencies,
which made her performances even better. Fortunately by then the sound was
fixed and she sounded superb.
Kelly Khumalo was followed by the main act of the night,
which was Bongani Fassie collaborating with Brenda Fassie- the hologram.
Bongani Fassie gave it his all as expected. We were all very certain he
wouldn’t want to disappoint his mother and everyone else who was present at the
festival.
The hologram!!!!!!
The hologram was apparently an actress. This actress’ role
was prerecorded and played on the night of the festival alongside Bongani. Some
people still believed it was a hologram because at the end of the performance,
she (hologram) disappeared like she was switched off.
It was still a beautiful moment despite the acting, everyone
got slightly emotional.
The DJ’S of the night were also great and the Kwaito
performances took us way back. Arthur and Chomee were awesome as usual. The Muffins
also did well.
Well-done Hansa!!!!!!
