Steve Newman (musician)

Steve Newman on stage at the 2010 Solstice Beer Festival in Broederstroom, South Africa

Steve Newman is a South African acoustic guitarist, and was a founder member of the popular African group Tananas.^[1]^[2]^[3] For thirty years Newman has been collaborating with fellow South African guitarist, Tony Cox.^[4] He is also one of The Aquarian Quartet, consisting of Tony Cox, Syd Kitchen (deceased 2011), Greg Georgiades and Steve Newman. He was a member of Mondetta, a self-described "world music group", with Gito Baloi (of Tananas) and Wendy Oldfield. ^[5]

Discography[]

As Steve Newman

Your Mother is Very Worried About You (1979) — out of print LP
What Do You Want (1982) — solo and with Tony Cox; out of print LP
101 Ways to Play the Acoustic Guitar (1983) with Tony Cox — out of print LP
Man on the Jetty (1985) — out of print cassette (solo), recorded at Pearl Road Studios, London, by Doc Rowe
Tananas (1986) with Kathryn Locke — out of print cassette
Planetarium Live (c. 1989) with Tony Cox — out of print cassette
Alive at La Plaza (1993) with Tony Cox — out of print cassette
About Time (2002) with Tony Cox
Steve Newman (2004) — solo independent release
The World in a Guitar (2004) with Aquarian Quartet & friends (Madala Kunene, Terence Scarr, Edi Nedilander, Ashish Joshi, Kesivan Naidoo, Errol Dyers)
Flavour (2008) — solo