Musician, PE promoter in row over payment

MUSICIAN Busiswa has denied accusations that she owes a Port Elizabeth promoter R10 000 after she allegedly failed to perform at The Irock Jazz festival late last year‚ but the promoter is set on getting his money back.

Irock Production’s Ian Rockman said Busiswa was billed to perform at the event‚ but due to bad weather the festival was shut down before her performance.

Rockman said he was frustrated because the songstress was paid R10 000 after she had approached him to book her to perform at a second event, while she was in the city.

“Busiswa was booked for the event and was fully paid,” he said.

“She already had another gig in PE and asked me to find a secondary gig for her‚ which I did.

“The people from the first event covered her flight and accommodation. The arrangement was that my driver would wait for her to finish then drive her to my festival.

“But unfortunately the heavy rain forced us to shut down and I then called to let her know.”

Rockman alleged that after Busiswa’s performance at his festival did not happen they verbally agreed she would give him another performance date.

He believed this was to honour the R10 000 payment he made to her.

Screenshots of his and Busiswa’s conversations where she agreed to perform on another date have been provided to TshisaLIVE.

However‚ things finally spiralled out of control with Rockman threatening to involve his lawyers‚ while Busiswa said she had only agreed to another date out of courtesy.

Busiswa said she did not owe anybody money. “I went to his event prepared to perform but it rained and he cancelled. We waited for his transport to come get us and it never did.”