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= Esmé & Steyn = Esmé & Steyn is a South African Afrikaans music duo composed of Esmé Fox and Steyn de Wet. The Afrikaans music duo stated in June 2022 after Esmé & Steyn met in May 2022 at the Gifberg Spook Fees, an annual South African Music Festival. Esmé & Steyn is an Afrikaans music duo with two powerful and unique tastes that are integrated into one folk-inspired light acoustic musical harmony.

How Esmé & Steyn Began: Origin Story
The Gifberg Spook Fees of 2022 presented the continuum that produced Esmé & Steyn as a musical duo. The line-up for the Friday evening had finished and most of the festival-goers had retired to their tents, but for the flesh and blood musos, the best part of the festival had just started.

Like all previous years, the musicians started jamming unplugged on the “stoep” of the house where most of the band members stayed for the duration of the festival. The aim may have been to impress the crowd when they played on the main stage, but when jamming on the “stoep” you bore your heart along with the other diehards.

Most of the musos who performed at the Gifberg Spook Fees 2022, were also in previous years’ line-ups. In fact, most were there for the first one and returned for every subsequent instance. However, on that Friday evening of The Gifberg Spook Fees of 2022, there was a new face among the old crew. Esmé Fox looked the part, had the rock and roll attitude to boot, and as the guitars and opportunity to show your stuff went around, she was clearly anxious for her turn.

When the guitar and opportunity finally made their way around to her, she not only stunned “stoep” jammers, oh no, she belted unabashed and covered the tent town of the festival-goers in a glorious blanket of soul and sound. The next day festival-goers enquired of the event organiser who that woman was, and by Saturday afternoon it was decided that she had to play a set that evening.

Among the enthralled on the “stoep” was Steyn de Wet. Having experienced Esmé Fox, her voice, and audacity, he solemnly thought to himself: “Ma’am, I believe in you.”

A couple of months later, the winter was approaching the southern hemisphere, and a song called "Winterkaap" came to Steyn. As he composed the melody to the refrain, he had another simple conviction - Esmé Fox must sing this.