Evita showing at Theatre on the Bay

Theatre on The Bay

Evita is cur­rently show­ing at Theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay ... it’s so good and there has been such an over­whelm­ing response for tick­ets that the theatre has added a few extra dates to the show times.  So if you thought you’d missed out before get into the Cape Town Festive Season spirit and snap up a ticket!

The pro­duc­tion fol­lows the rise of a young and ambi­tious Eva; telling the story of the enorm­ous wealth and power she gained and how she became the much loved Evita ... Continued

SA's Got Talent Top Three to perforn at Cavendish Square on Saturday 13 November

SA's Got Talent

SA's Got Talent Top Three to per­forn at Cavendish Square on Saturday 13 November at 13h00: Cape Town really proved that they have tal­ent at the finals of SA’S GOT TALENT last week with the top three and win­ner all hail­ing from the Mother City. Cavendish Square has organ­ised a her­oes wel­come for Cape Town’s top tal­ent, and ALL of the top three will per­form at the Centre Court next Saturday 13 November from 13h00.

Performing will be win­ner, James Bhemgee — a former street sweeper and unem­ployed tenor, runner-up, Constable Madalene Abrahams – a local police­wo­man and third placed group, Limited Drum Corps, who also come from very humble back­grounds and had to bor­row drums for their show stop­ping per­form­ance ... Continued

A Freshlyground Christmas

A Freshlyground X-Mas

Yes, it’s true…  Freshlyground is on Nelson Mandela Square’s Christmas list this year and this means that Sandton’s most spec­tac­u­lar annual car­ols event has just become that much better!

So, make sure that you diar­ize Sunday, December 5 at 18h00 and be on Nelson Mandela Square at Sandton City to exper­i­ence an event that is sure to prove unfor­get­table. Continued

Jazz on Friday in Franschhoek starts 29 October

Jazz on Friday

Another reason to be happy its finally Spring ... The new sea­son of Jazz on Friday, fea­tur­ing the Cape Dutch Connection, kicks off on 29 October 2010 and con­tin­ues every Friday until 1 April 2011 from 5.30pm to 8.30pm.  This sea­son, the band will be play­ing at a new venue, Col'Cacchio Pizzeria in Huguenot Street, Franschhoek.

Band leader Derk Blaisse says the venue, which they tried out at a per­form­ance dur­ing the Bastille Festival in July, is per­fect.  “The garden at Col’Cacchio has a won­der­ful coun­try feel and is set against the back­drop of the Franschhoek moun­tains.  Being in the main road we have the advant­age of attract­ing passers-by and the vibe of being in the middle of a cos­mo­pol­itan vil­lage. I think we are going to have a fant­astic sum­mer sea­son.” Continued

Johnny Clegg at Emmarentia Dam on 6 November — Book now!

Johnny Clegg

“Impi! wo 'nans' impi iyeza
Obani bengath­inta amab­hubesi?”

These open­ing lyr­ics to Johnny Clegg and Savuka’s song Impi evoke such happy feel­ings for me. Not only to a mul­ti­tude of memor­ies sweep into the fore­front of my mind, but it is such a power­ful song sung by such a favour­ite and won­der­ful South African artist.

Johnny Clegg is a legend in the South African music industry, and on Saturday 6 November he will be cel­eb­rat­ing his 30 years in the music industry with a con­cert at the Emmarentia Dam in Johannesburg. This is a once off event brought to you by 94.7 Highveld Stereo. Continued

Jou ma se goema

Mac McKenzie

A friend of mine shared a video about goema recently on Facebook. Since I don't have a clue what goema is, my interest was more than a little piqued. Mostly because this par­tic­u­lar friend of mine has intro­duced me to the sounds of Cape Town jazz in her own way.

Her house, up until recently, was a one-stop-shop for Cape Town musi­cians who used her lounge for jam­ming ses­sions, and any occa­sion that war­ran­ted it (and a fair num­ber of those that didn't) would find her home full to bust­ing — sing­ers with micro­phones, any num­ber of gui­tars, the piano and even the odd double bass — I tried not to be there on birth­days, New Year, pub­lic hol­i­days... you can see how this might have interfered with our friend­ship some­what. Continued

Carol Thorns at On Broadway

Carol Thorns

Do your­self a favour and get down to On Broadway (44 Long Street) this Sunday and watch Carol Thorns per­form.  Ahead of deb­ut­ing at the world fam­ous Edinburgh Festival in August the CODA band mem­ber is giv­ing her Mother City fans a sneak pre­view of her show ‘Red Cello Electrified’ at On Broadway this Sunday (July 25^th 2010).

Carol is South Africa’s premier elec­tric cel­list and trans­forms tra­di­tional cello music, tak­ing it to a new dimen­sion which is both aur­ally and visu­ally excit­ing but Carol and her red cello (hence the name of the show!) still retain the rich­ness and beauty of the cello’s clas­sical ori­gins. Continued

The Cape Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphony Season

CPO

The Cape Philharmonic Orchestra has announced their line up of the Autumn Symphony Season — Here are some of the upcom­ing per­form­ances. On Thursday 15 April the orches­tra will be per­form­ing Khatchaturian’s Violin Concerto with soloist Simone Lamsma, the highly sought-after Dutch viol­in­ist. Other works per­formed on this even­ing will be “Symphonie Fantastique” by Berlioz and “Ideomeneo” from Mozart. The orches­tra will be con­duc­ted by Martin Panteleev a Bulgarian com­poser, con­ductor and viol­in­ist ... Continued

Cape Town Jazz Safari

Cape Town Jazz Safari

Reviewed by the New York Times as 'gritty authen­ti­city' and revered by the loc­als as authen­tic grooves, easy listen­ing in Cape Town is a musical must. Take in live jazz in the liv­ing rooms of liv­ing musi­cians. Sit at the din­ing room table that com­forts the local jazz­ing legends of moody tunes and absorb them carving out rhythm in a private per­form­ance at their private residence.

A jazz safari will open the city's hid­den alley­ways with a secret hand­shake and a nod that allows access to oth­er­wise unre­vealed hot­spots. A con­stant soul pro­vider through­out his­toric spaces of pain, Jazz has been a cul­tural com­pan­ion of Capetonians through­out the South African struggle. Brass notes, ivory keys and gui­tar strings con­tin­ues to weave sounds and silences into an even­ing excur­sion of saun­ter­ing and social­ising ... Continued