Grammy Award-winning Reggae band Morgan Heritage will embark on their first full-scale African tour, come October, and has plans to collaborate with some of the “freshest and biggest talents in each country”, to produce a collaborative album, the Down by the River singers have announced.
The tour, which is dubbed the Island Vibes Africa Tour, will see the trio trekking across several countries in West, Central, East and Southern Africa for performances, over an eight-week period.
The tour gets underway on Sunday October 2, in Johannesburg South Africa then moves to Kigali in Rwanda on Saturday October 8; Friday October 14 in Harare, Zimbabwe and Kadoma in that same country, the following day.
On Saturday October 22, the band will perform in Lilongwe, Malawi and on the 29th in Adis Ababa the Ethiopian capital. The tour will then move to Accra, Ghana on Saturday November 12 and close at Pamplemousses in Mauritius on November 26.
Established in 1994, Morgan Heritage, which is composed of some of the late Reggae singer Denroy Morgan’s 29 children, began initially as a recording octet, then a quintet. It has morphed into a trio comprising brothers Peter “Peetah” Morgan, Roy “Gramps” Morgan and Memmalatel “Mr. Mojo” Morgan.
