Nico Carstens, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 90, was a legendary accordion player and composer of boeremusiek. What he played sounded like boeremusiek to the uneducated, although the purists ...

Carnival City’s Big Top Arena will come to life with the characteristic sound of authentic boeremusiek and the pulsating sway of couples dancing “langarm” at the first ever instalment of Varstrap on ...

Philip de Villiers en die Blinde Boere Orkes will also be in action. De Villiers, with his repertoire of beautiful Afrikaans tunes, is master of the boeremusiek accordion. And working with a band from ...

Music is the heart and soul of expression, with the power to take you back in time or transport you to another world. With music styles and tastes constantly evolving, a band that goes back to their ...

We begin now to recognise the faces. The guy with the crazy hat is Jack Parow, the grey-haired man at the head of the table is Ian Roberts, the dead dude is…yup, it’s Rian Malan. It’s touted as the ...

"The only reason I sometimes don't write stories is because a. I'm too lazy, b. I'm too tired or c. I'm too pissed!" chuckles Valiant Swart. The legendary mystic blues rock boer is stressing just how ...

Johannesburg - Afrikaans musician and Boeremusiek legend, Nico van Rensburg, died on Sunday morning at 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria, his wife said. Lydia van Rensburg said her husband, 76, died of ...

Popular South African songs, sung in Afrikaans with orchestra; Carstens on accordion ; Carstens and Anton de Waal, arrangers. Production notes: Recorded in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Blass Jou Vuvuzela ft Jack Parow is the latest single and video from the Radio Kalahari Orkes's SAMA-nominated album "Heuningland". It's a proudly South African, zombilicious vuvuzela-blasting ...