Derek Gripper and Guy Buttery

Feb 24, 2024 at 19:00 · Slave Church, Cape Town Slave Church, Cape Town

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Derek Gripper

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Derek Gripper spent years transcribing Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté’s complex compositions for six-string guitar. The results appeared on his ninth album, One Night on Earth, bridging Western classical written tradition and West African griot oral tradition.

Guy Buttery

Born in South Africa, “national treasure” Guy Buttery is a world-touring acoustic guitar virtuoso, SA music ambassador; collab’d with Dave Matthews, Jethro Tull, Will Ackerman.