IKS Cultural Consulting, which administers Concerts SA, takes its acronym from ‘Indigenous Knowledge Systems’. It is a collective of independent experts from the music industry, arts, culture and heritage sectors with more than 20 years of knowledge and expertise in policy making, research, and project management, both locally and internationally. Concerts SA is a project of the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO), that has provided sustained and vital support for the live-music industry for the past 10 years across 11 Southern African countries, researching and implementing models for ongoing economic activity in the live-music sector, even during the Covid-19 Pandemic period.