Thokozani Mhlambi

Thanks to the New Mexico Music Commission and the Friends of the Public Library for funding these library shows!

Register for the event and we'll send you updates if there are any schedule changes, as well as info on future free programs and other events around Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

This is another exciting collaboration with the Museum of International Folk Art. Thokozani will be in New Mexico for the opening of iNgqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa on November 17. We are happy to offer up a chance to see him in Albuquerque as well. Be sure to check out the exhibit, though. We've been enjoying South African telephone wire art at Folk Art Market for years and are sure the MOIFA exhibit will take it to another level!

You can also catch Thokozani performing at Chatter's Sunday morning program on November 24. 

Dr. Thokozani Mhlambi is a musician and cultural thinker who has a strong sense of community and how the local and global connect. Building artistic visions using an internationalist methodology, Mhlambi uses his art and exhibitions in order to convey African stories and philosophies. He has created his own distinctive presentations that blend engaging performances with critical thought, and frequently does solo concerts on his baroque cello and vocals on stage. He works with orchestras and groups in North America and Europe.

He has been a visiting artist at Cite Internationale Des Arts in Paris and at universities in Germany, Finland, and Brazil. Mhlambi recently returned from an Artist Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, where he was developing new work using ancient Zulu idioms.