Zimbabwean Music Festival

Music Dancing Across Borders
Come celebrate the power of African music and dance to bring people together in a full three and
a half days of Zimbabwean-inflected music, dance, song, culture and fun!

The 2025 Zimbabwean Music Festival will be held on the campus of Central Washington University August 7-10. This “everyone-can-participate” festival offers three days of workshops, many of them hands-on. Activities include 15 hours of free afternoon concerts, an African Marketplace and ticketed evening concerts (by donation). Valuing education as well as performance, Zimfest attracts Zimbabwean music and culture experts from around the world to teach festival participants. Workshops are available on everything from basic drumming to traditional Shona and Ndebele dance to the ancient sounds of mbira and the irresistible, effervescent marimba.

Featured Zimbabwean Performers:
Master mbira players Musekiwa Chingodza (Zimbabwe) and Bezil Makombe (South Africa) Guitar virtuosi Zivanai Masango and ZiMBiRA (US); Gilbert Zvamaida with Kudana (US) Singer/Dancer Tsungai Tsikirai (UK) debuting her album African Queen Marimba specialist and cultural educator Michael Sibanda (South Africa)