The Embassy of Spain and Espana Cooperacion Cultural Exterior have arranged  to bring in Spanish composer Carlos de France to work with Music Crossroads in staging a series of workshops aimed at  developing local groups songwriting, arrangement, composition and presentation skills as part of Music Crossroads ongoing commitment to improving the prospects for groups within their talent identification and promotional network,

Carlos de France  was the bassist, founder and composer for a  Spanish group called Objetivo Birmania that led a musical explosion in Spain during the ’80′s and were responsible for many of the biggest hits of Spanish Pop in the 80’s and the 90’s.

In 1996, Carlos moved to Miami where he worked for Universal as a producer and for Sony as a songwriter as well as writing music for film and adverts.

He has more than 120 songs published and interpreted by some of the most famous Latin American and Spanish artists; whilst he now enjoys a career as a singer and showman in Spain since his return from America.

Carlos will assist in running a series of workshops with Crossroads groups – from among the participants artists will be selected to perform at the Chimanimani Arts Festival and apply what they have learned in a festival environment,

The promoters of Music Crossroads believe that the skills learned in workshops of this nature can be applied by participating groups to further their prospects both within the Crossroads talent network, as well as for the artist’s personal skill development.

Chimanimani Arts Festival ris committed to providing a platform for emerging talents and in addition to Music Crossroads will also feature groups from the talent  development initiatives set up by Pamberi Trust – the Bocapa and Flame projects.

The festival will take place from May 21-23 and will feature a host of popular Zimbabwean musicians performing at what surely must rank as the most scenic venue for a festival in Zimbabwe.

The festival remains free entry and promises an exciting line-up of music, theatre, dance, poetry, comedy, film and workshops throughout the weekend.

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