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OLATUJA sees vocalist Alicia Olatuja and Nigerian electric bassist Michael Olatuja reunite in music, blending Afrobeat, jazz, funk, and soul for a rousing, hard-grooving show. After enrapturing audiences at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, Rochester Jazz Festival, Love Supreme Festival, and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, OLATUJA brings their singular sound to the Spiegeltent this summer for the very first time.

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Olatuja

Fisher Center at Bard

Night three of our week celebrating South African Freedom Day showcases a sublime performance featuring South African vocalist and composer Melanie Scholtz and Nairobi-born pianist Aaron Rimbui, honoring the memory of the legendary vocalist, songwriter, and social activist known around the world as “Mama Africa,” Miriam Makeba.

A Cape Town native, Melanie Scholtz has been a major artist on the South African scene since the early 2000s, releasing five acclaimed albums, working with jazz legend and Miriam Makeba’s one-time husband Hugh Masekela, and touring the world with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 2019. Her 2013 collaboration with the iconic poet and anti-apartheid activist James Mathews, Freedom’s Child, featured SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director Soweto Kinch.

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Aaron Rimbui

Events

Past events

Jul 19, 2025

Olatuja · Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

Apr 27, 2024

Melanie Scholtz & Aaron Rimbui Ensemble · San Francisco Jazz

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