They will follow two days of exciting amateur cricket featuring ex-Proteas legends like Meyrick Pringle, Allan Donald, Justin Kemp and Aubrey Martin with ex-Proteas player Brett Schultz getting involved as an umpire.
The festival is happening at the Green Point Cricket Club on 19 and 20 March and the concert kicks off on the 20th at 6.30pm.
An 11-piece Afro-pop band, Mango Groove has had more than 12 number-one hits including Dance Some More, Hellfire, Special Star, and Moments Away. They recently released their first single in six years: Faces To The Sun.
Jimmy Nevis was born and raised in Cape Town, his music has been dominating the airwaves for the last couple of years, including hits such as 7764, Jericho, and Heartboxing.
The Kiffness make jazzy, groovy and uplifting house music. Where Are You Going? and Find A Way are two of their most successful singles to date and the band was included in the iTunes list of New Artists for 2014.
Singer-songwriter and ex-frontman of SA band Plush, Rory Elliot completes the line-up for Sunday night.
Festival-goers can take full advantage of the last days of the Cape Town summer season, watching two days of cricket, enjoying some great live music, participating in a host of other activities happening at the festival and sampling food from every stall in the food village. Comedienne and radio personality Dalin Oliver will be the MC for the weekend and will be playing in one of the league teams.
The Cape Town Sixes Festival will showcase the city’s famous flair for fun, entertainment and community spirit with a Food of Nations Village featuring cuisine from the world’s great cricketing countries, a ‘Bigger Than Me’ precinct that highlights social development projects that are improving quality of life in Cape Town and a safe, friendly kids and family zone and the of course the live music to end of each day.
Tickets are from www.capetownsixesfestival.com
