The Earagail Arts Festival team is disappointed to inform you that due to reasons beyond our control, Gonora Sounds will not be performing at the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny on Sunday 13^th July as part of the 2025 programme.

Please read the following statement issued on behalf of the band:

Thank you so much for buying a ticket to come and see Gonora Sounds play in Letterkenny on 13^th July. We are very disappointed to have to cancel this show, because our visas have not yet been approved, and now even if approved will be too late to travel. We were advised to apply for this visa 4 months in advance, unfortunately the best we could do was 3 months in advance. We were hopeful that this would still be enough time, but sadly it was not. We hope to get the chance to come to Ireland in the future, perhaps we will play for you then. Apologies again for this.

Earagail Arts Festival still has a packed programme of events for you in-store and we hope to see you in July.

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Gonora Sounds is a family band that has been busking on the streets of Zimbabwe since 2004. Entertaining thousands of commuters with their street beat dubbed Gonora Sounds by regular revellers.

The band is led by blind singer/songwriter Daniel Gonora, a master on the guitar with protege teenage son Isaac Gonora on drums. In recent years, the band has extended to sometimes include seasoned musicians Nelson “Mr Longman” Mutanda on lead guitar and Malizani Mbewe on bass for a full band set up.

Gonora Sounds under different band names have managed to record several street distributed EPs including Shoko Harivikwe. Daniel and Isaac’s street performances have garnered over 10 million views on the internet with international audiences following them on social media

The father and son duo feature in multi award winning documentary  ‘You Can’t Hide From The Truth’ , and have collaborated with American Jazz Legend Pharoah Sanders as well as several international musicians on the Fernando Arno produced “What Love”.  British duo, The Busy Twist have recently remixed the band’s song Rwendo Rweupenyu into the ‘Journey of Life Remix”

Gonora Sounds debut full length album Hard Times Never Kill. Produced by Zimbabwean music luminary Bothwell Nyamondera and American Producer David Aglow released in February 2022 on New York record label The Vital Records.