V&A Waterfront Take The Stage Presents-Hassan’adas

V&A Waterfront Take the Stage Series is a platform for emerging South African musicians and musical ensembles to showcase their talents at V&A Waterfront. Experience these emerging artists live for a series of pop-up performances which are free for all to attend.

This is a project that was formed in the early part of 2010 with john Hassan as the leader, on percussion, vocals and acoustic guitar. The musical focus of this project is to blend original African rhythms and sounds, that people can listen and dance too. This was born from playing and recording with different musicians from across the globe and musicians that john Hassan has played with over the many years. This impressive list includes the late Miriam Makeba, Stimela, Hugh Masekela, the late Brenda Fassie, Manu Dibango, Papa Wemba, Chucho Valdez, the late Moses Molelekwa, Simply Red, Toto, Regina Carter, Carl Anderson, Sibongile Khumalo, Loading Zone, Jimmy Dludlu and Phoorbay Khatarjee