Guy Buttery with special guest Shane Cooper – Live at Wits Chris Seabrooke Music Hall

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Guy Buttery with special guest Shane Cooper

Live at Wits Chris Seabrooke Music Hall

• Date – Saturday, 27th April 2024

• Venue – Wits Chris Seabrooke Music Hall

• Address – Wits, 24 Station Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg

• Time – 19:00

• Price – R250 

“Guy Buttery is something of a National treasure”, says South Africa’s leading newspaper The Mercury. As an internationally recognised musician, this multi-instrumentalist enjoys invitations to play sell-out performances all over the globe. The USA, UK, Australia, France, Brazil, and Italy have all welcomed him back year after year. However, to simply label Guy Buttery as one of South Africa’s musical phenoms would be an injustice. His international role has surpassed merely performing concerts to foreign audiences. It has evolved into one as an ambassador of South African music, inspiring people across the world with his homegrown style at the very heart of his talent and tenacity. Guy’s distinct unification of South African guitar music is the musical advocate for everything positive and beautiful about the place he calls home.

Buttery has worked with an incredible myriad of artists including Dave Matthews, Jethro Tull, Vusi Mahlasela, multiple Grammy Award Winner Will Ackerman, Salif Keita, Preston Reed, Kaki King, The Violent Femmes, Jon Gomm and countless others. The media has cited him “as one of the finest exponents of the acoustic guitar in the World.”

This performance will include special guest artist Shane Cooper on bass and synthesizer. Shane Cooper is a jazz bassist, composer and producer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Shane was also selected as the Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz and was one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans. He was a member of the groups Babu, Closet Snare, the Kyle Shepherd Trio and has also worked with artists like Zim Ngqawana, Feya Faku, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Soweto Kinch, Bokani Dyer and many others

Expect high dynamics, deep grooves, delicate African inflections and mind-bending guitar playing of an entirely new order.

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