Mdumbi Green Fair music festival - 19-21 May - Umtata

Date: 19-21 May 2017
Venue: Mdumbi Backpackers and Point (10km North of Coffee Bay, Wild Coast, Eastern Cape)
Festival ticket price: R400 - buy at www.mdumbigreenfair.weebly.com
The purpose of the event is fourfold: to raise funds for TransCape NPO which is active with development work in the area, to create income opportunities to members of the local Xhosa community, to promote the Xhosa culture (the “Fair” side) and to rehabilitate the coastal forests in the area (The “Green” side).
Main features of the festival include:
One stages with Mdumbi Beach as backdrop.
Fifteen professional bands will perform on this stage throughout the weekend.
Other performances include traditional Xhosa dancing and choirs, stick fighting, fire dancing, circus acts and DJ’s until early mornings
The festival will further include stalls selling local Xhosa food, beverages and clothes, solar products as well as a bar and seafood stall
workshops like drumming, fire-poi, Xhosa dancing and stick fighting would be available as well as activities such as surfing, kayaking, cultural hikes and ocean safari boat trips
Paying guest will each receive one tree to plant in a pre-dug and fertilised hole