Oppikoppi is the name given to the annual music festival which has always been held in Limpopo province, South Africa since 1994. The only genre at the inaugural festival was rock music. Today, the Oppikoppi music festival has a complete mix of music genres that define the world of music as seen through an African festival experience.
Those who started this amazing African festival claim that it was not their intention for things to happen the way they happened. It all started with some gigs that were performed in an indoor bushveld business premise. The event was meant to be entirely hedonistic but turned out to be something more pragmatic.
During the second Oppikoppi music festival of 1995, 27 rock bands were invited to perform. There were about 2,000 people who attended the event. It is said that almost everyone who attended the event which had only one stage has either a wound or a unique story or both of them to show for their attendance. The Oppikoppi was the first music festival that proved to the world that South Africa had much to show for its rich musical heritage.
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The event planted a foundation and subsequent events just had to grow in both magnitude and coverage. No wonder many other music genres were incorporated into the Oppikoppi festival. Everything that is inherently African, or South African for that matter, somehow finds its way into the festival before the rest of the world appreciates it. Whether it is the costume-wearing traditional dancers or mask-wielding Khoikhoi warriors, South African traditions have found their way into
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