
Valiant Swart
Valiant Swart is a South African legend, I saw him so many times between 1996 and 2006 that I can’t count them. We used to watch him at the big festivals like Wingerstok or Oppikoppie and he was always the highlight of the show. Some of my best memories of him were the small intimate acoustic gigs where he would sit with an acoustic guitar, play his songs and tell the audience stories of dope smoking small town sheriffs in the Mississippi Delta, or playing with Mel Botha’s to Tannies with purple hair at the old age home. He is brilliantly entertaining and simply just one of the nicest guys around.