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Hi Adam Any chance of you sorting out a mailing list to let people know when things are happening? Keep up the good work. Cheers Well -- of course if anyone wants to be on a mail list we'll happily put them there - don't expect a flurry of gigs just yet although we're looking at some public stuff a...

Hi folks. Kwela-philes please adjust your browsers. In a rare outbreak of modesty, I'm moving the Positively Testcard website from my rather arcane personal web address to the rather more literal and user-friendly www.positivelytestcard.co.uk Still the rather lame and computer-illiterate layout, but...

Sorry - didn't mean to cause offence with the phrase. I'll check him out!

Kwela was the first black commercial musical phenomenon of apartheid stricken South Africa. It's a sprightly, upbeat penny whistle sound - and it became a township craze after the release of a film in 1950 called the Magic Garden, featuring a young boy playing American swing and boogie woogie on pen...

Having discovered and admired this great site I now wish to engage in a shameless act of self promotion - but also because I want to share this wonderful music. I'd like to let everyone know about our website devoted to our kwela band here in the UK. Positively Testcard was founded by Dave Woodhead ...