SOUND SAMPLES
Red Rock City
Goema goema
(requires windows media audio)

LINKS
What is Goema?
review of Healing Destination
musica.co.za
SA Rock Digest
come2capetown.com
music.org.za
Richard Haslop`s review
Mountain Records
Goema Captains 2004 tour
Jazzathon 2003
Mountain Records
The tavern of the seven seas

COLLABORATORS
Alex van Heerden

ALBUMS



Healing Destination
feat. Alex van Heerden, Robbie 
Jansen, Ernie Deane, Clement Benny
Zolani Mahola

MAC McKENZIE and the Goema Captains of Cape Town

composer lauriate of Cape Town, guitarist and leader of the Goema Captains of Cape Town

Performance format: four to eight piece band, plus choir. Core musicians are Mac McKenzie (guitar, voice, composer, bandleader), Hilton Schilder (voice, piano, mouthbow, percussion), Alex van Heerden (trumpet, accordion, voice), Clement Benny (drums, voice), Basil Moses (double bass). 

Additional musicians include those featured on the album Healing Destination: Ernie Deane (singer), Robbie Jansen (saxophones), Zolani Mahola, Jannie van Tonder (trombone).

For bookings click here

The Goema Captains of Cape Town is a Cape Town band. Obvious, yes. 

But beneath the obvious lies the significant. The Goema Captains are the Cape Town band. Never before has a band in Cape Town so widely taken in the fabric of Cape Town culture, lifestyle  and fantasy. 

Mac’s legacy is Christmas Choirs, Malay Choirs, the Coon carnival and music on every corner. Mac's daddy was the legendary Mister Mac, a banjo player of national repute, and a Carnival captain of winning proportions. He was the King of the Carnival. Mac has his father's purpose and charm together with a unique musical genuis that enables him to compose the emotions of the city he has always lived in. "Off the cuff you show your hands," is Mac's favourite line. And that's where his music is at. Free and fantastical. 

Hilton Schilder is from Grassy Park on the Cape Flats, he’s a pianist from a musical dynasty - the biggest musical family in the world. He’s Mr Cool in the lounge, playing the piano better than anybody in the whole wide world (for more on Hilton and his solo album, visit the site of his label, Mountain Records). 

Alex Van Heerden is the boy in the bubble from the small Afrikaans republic of Tulbagh who left his home with no direction - only purpose. Of course his end point was sleeping on the floor of Mac and Hilton's homes, performing with the last breaths of the Genuines and imbibing the intoxicating history of Cape Town. Alex is Alex in Wonderland, caressing the movement of the sea with his accordion. He follows his path with diligence and delight, embroiled in a spontaneous comedy.