Prepare yourself for a weekend of great music and mouth-watering delights with the DStv Delicious International Food and Music Festival
The DStv Delicious International Food and Music Festival returns for its fifth instalment next weekend (7 – 8 October). The festival brings together two of the greatest joys in life, food and music, in one place for one blissful weekend. The festival began in 2013, when UK sensation, Jamiroquai, headlined the event in the good company of local artists and top chefs. Over the years, the DStv Delicious stage has seen the likes of De La Soul, The Soil, Mi Casa, Macy Gray and many others.
Food at music festivals doesn’t have the best reputation; visions of traipsing through mud to line up at a boerie stand spring to mind, and while there’s been a move towards more gourmet off erings at festivals, DStv Delicious is an innovator in this regard. Over the years, chefs such as Aldo Zilli, Reza Mahammad, Ed Baines, Jenny Morris and Reuben Riff el have had pop-up restaurants and cooking demonstrations at the festival.
The DStv Delicious recipe has been successful from the beginning. The festival outgrew its previous venues and in 2016, it moved to the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit. “Kyalami Grand Prix allows growth like nowhere else, while remaining accessible. Not only is it central, the venue boasts world-class facilities and ample parking for all festival patrons,” says Lloyd Cornwell, director, Massive Management (the company that organises the DStv Delicious Festival).
Around 40,000 people are expected to attend this year, with Emmy, Oscar and Grammy award-winning rapper, Common, headlining. Common has been making music for close to three decades, has released 11 studio albums and has featured on countless others. He has a signifi cant connection to one of the other performers: Femi Kuti, a multi-instrumentalist and son of Nigerian activist and Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Kuti. Since his introduction to Fela in the ’90s, Common has been inspired and infl uenced by his music and activism. Common’s 2000 album, Like Water for Chocolate , featured a tribute to Fela, which included samples from his songs and Femi singing. The two have collaborated and performed together many times over the years.
Local legend Hugh Masekela is part of the local line-up, as well as popular DJ, Black Coff ee, who will be performing with a full band. Other artists include Omar, Imagination feat. Leee John, Alexander O’Neal, Thandiswa Mazwai, Soul II Soul and TKZee.
If you want to bring the kids along, no problem, there’ll be an interactive kids’ area to keep them entertained for hours.
