Anna Mudeka
Anna Mudeka | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | business executive |
| Known for | Norfolk World Music Festival |
Anna Soko Mudeka is a Zimbabwean-British musician, actor, business executive and music festival organizer.[1] Since 2008 she has been the organizer of the Southburgh Festival of World Music in Southburgh in the Breckland district[2] of mid-Norfolk, East Anglia, England. Also some local festivities.
The festival raises money for the Mudeka Foundation, a charity that seeks "... to provide orphans in Zimbabwe with an opportunity for an education."[3][4][5][6]
Stage performances
Since 2022, she has acted and sung multiple performances of Mama Afrika, a single-person, two-act stage performance based on the life and music of Miriam Makeba. The play was scripted by Zimbabwean writer Tomas Lutuli Brickhill and directed by Tonia Daley-Campbell: [7]
- 2022: Five one-night venues across East Anglia
- 2023: Ten one-night venues from London to Edinburgh
- 2024: Nine one-night venues from London to Edinburgh
- 2025: Twelve one-night venues spread from Bristol to Nottingham
Televised performances
On 25 March 2026, Mudeka's ensemble, The African Choir of Norfolk performed at the televised installation of Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral.[8]
References
- ↑ Buller, Rachel (March 31, 2014). "Out of Africa". Norfolk. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- ↑ Visit Breckland Archived 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Mudeka Foundation". Mudeka Foundation. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- ↑ "Mudeka organises Norfolk World Music Festival". New Zimbabwe. Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. 18 April 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- ↑ Owens, John (October 23, 2011). "Zimbabwe fundraiser brings world music show to Norwich". Norwich Evening News. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- ↑ Walsh, Peter (May 5, 2013). "Communities come together for some free fun and music at Norwich park". Norwich Evening News. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- ↑ https://www.theapex.co.uk/whats-on/details.cfm?id=974547&ins=1547590
- ↑ Sophie Skyring, "Norfolk choir to perform at Archbishop of Canterbury's installation",Eastern Daily Press, 24 March 2026