Based: Cape Town

The band is ideally suited for creating a festive atmosphere at anything from a small cocktail party to a wedding or corporate event. We have performed at numerous high-profile functions for parliamentarians, diplomats and done residencies at the Table Bay Hotel, Ratanga Junction and Moyo Restaurant at Spier Wine Estate.

AfroTropica also offers corporate team-building workshops, where participants become members of a performing steelband. The workshops accommodate up to twenty-five participants in a ninety minute session, where they learn two or three tunes, and then perform them. No prior musical experience whatsoever is required.

AfroTropica is the professional performing steelband attached to the Steelband Project. The band ranges from a duo to a 7-piece depending on the occasion and venue size. Always colourfully turned out, we play a vibrant repertoire of African, Caribbean and Jazz tunes. The instrumentation is predominately the steelpan, which originated on the island of Trinidad in the 1940s, and is also augmented with percussion and drumkit.