Performance

UKHOLO

1 upcoming performance in New York

UKHOLO arrives at Dizzy’s Club as a jazz set shaped by South African histories and present-day city life. The program centers on South African Freedom Day and features saxophonist Sisonke Xonti, placing commemoration alongside improvisation rather than treating it as backdrop. In New York, where diaspora narratives often surface through club stages before institutions catch up, this functions as a small act of cultural record. One clear takeaway is the music’s attention to collective memory, not just individual virtuosity.