Old Mutual Music in the Gardens with PJ Morton & Mandisi Dyantyis

The Old Mutual Music in the Gardens series for 2024 kicks off on Sunday 8 September 2024 and the first show in the series will take place at Mushroom Farm Park in Sandton with PJ Morton (USA), Mandisi Dyantyis and opening act Wandile Mbambeni.

Gates open at 12 pm. Concert starts 1 pm. Ends 6 pm.

Your own food is welcome.

Drinks and Hard Cooler boxes are not allowed

You may bring picnic blankets, camping chairs, and smail beach style umbrellas.

No gazebos are allowed.

No pass-outs while the show is in progress.

TICKETS ARE NOT REFUNDABLE

About the Artists:

PJ Morton is an incredible multiple Grammy Award winning musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, solo artist as well as member of Maroon 5, returns to South Africa in 2024 to perform with his phemomenal band Afro Orleans.

With his latest album, Cape Town to Cairo, written and recorded on his last African tour he continues a spectacular run of genre-blurring releases, and extends his considerable ambitions even further. In addition to earning four consecutive years of Grammy wins — Best Traditional R&B Performance in 2019, Best R&B Song in 2020, Best Gospel Album in 2021 and Album Of The Year in 2022 (for his contributions to Jon Batiste's We Are) — Morton has topped charts and received nods for numerous BET, Soul Train, and NAACP Image Awards honoring the six albums he has put out since his breakthrough, Gumbo, in 2017. And all of this comes in addition being a full-time member of with Maroon 5 and also running his own record label.

Mandisi Dyantyis is an award-winning trumpeter and Afro-Soul-Jazz vocalist and a well-known figure within the South African music scene and is beloved for the profound emotional journeys he weaves through his music. In 2018, he released his first album Somandla, following it up with his second album Cwaka, in 2021. Both received rave reviews, cementing him as a lasting presence within the music industry.

He is a prolific composer for film, stage and television, which has seen his work portrayed across the globe. The “Live” stage is his home and his charismatic energy and allure, needs to be witnessed, to fully understand Mandisi Dyantyis.

Wandile Mbambeni is a singer-songwriter hailing from Johannesburg, South Africa, known for his unique blend of Soul and African folk-country. With a powerful, unique voice and a passion for storytelling, he has become a rising star in the local and international music scene.

Over the past few years, Wandile Mbambeni has played at some of the continent’s most prestigious venues and events, including Rocking The Daisies and Lake of Stars in Malawi. He joined Grammy-nominated artist Tamia on her national tour of South Africa, and opened for multiple Grammy Award winner PJ Morton in 2023.