With only six weeks to go to the opening of the 2006 Cape Town International Jazz Festival, the line-up for South Africa's premier jazz festival is almost complete with the addition of more exciting African and International artists. The 7th annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival will once again take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on Friday 31 March and Saturday 1 April 2006.

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The latest names to be added to the impressive 2006 Cape Town International Jazz Festival line-up include:
Jose Feliciano (Puerto Rico/USA), The Moreira Project (Mozambique), Richard Bona (Cameroon), Tlale Makhene (RSA), Winston Mankunku Sextet with special guest star Robbie Jansen (RSA), Thandiswa Mazwai (RSA), Kwani Experience (RSA), Dan Patlan & The New Orleans All Star Blues Band (RSA/USA),The James Scholfield Trio feat. Billy Hart & Arno Krijger (RSA/USA/NL), Rus Nerwich "Beyond The Walls" (RSA), Viktoria Tolstoy (Sweden), Forgotten Free-Quencies feat. realRozzano & DFORM (RSA), Spencer Mbadu Sextet (RSA), Ntando (RSA), Four Forty (RSA), The Rebirth (USA), Juan Carlos Romero Trio (Spain). Johnny Mekoa & His Herd and Mark de Clive- Lowe.

Now known as 'Africa's Grandest Gathering', the festival is acknowledged as the largest and most prestigious jazz event on the African continent and calendar. This year will be the third time that the Cape Town International Jazz Festival will be staged at its spacious and classy new home at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). The Festival's director, Rashid Lombard, and his organisation team, espAfrika (Pty) Ltd, have again worked very hard to ensure that the 2006 staging of this hugely popular festival will be as successful as the previous festivals.

The 2006 Cape Town International Jazz Festival will again feature a world-class line-up of 40 jazz and jazz-related artists, split equally between the African and International contingents, performing in five different venues situated around the Convention Centre. There will also be the traditional Free Concert for the people of Cape Town to be held on Greenmarket Square a day prior to the festival on Thursday 30 March.


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