‘Supreme Divas’: Celebrating fabulous women of song

Diva3August is the month to celebrate and highlight dynamic women and this will be done in spectacular fashion on The Mandela stage at Joburg Theatre with Supreme Divas from Thursday, August 11 to Sunday, August 14.

Supreme Divas will delight audiences old and young as they celebrate the powerhouse female singers that have become legends through their music over the past few decades. Continue reading

Jazz musos fly the KZN flag high at SAMRO Foundation competition

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Sidney Rash and Linda Sikhakhane.

Two young jazz musicians from KwaZulu-Natal will be pulling out all the stops to secure a place in the finals of the SAMRO Overseas Scholarships Competition, which will go down to the wire in Johannesburg in mid-August.

Saxophonist, Linda Sekhakhane, and drummer, Sidney Rash, are two of the six semi-finalists in the jazz music category of this illustrious annual music competition, which this year focuses on instrumentalists.  Continue reading

Pops Mohamed and Dave Reynolds to perform at the Rainbow Restaurant

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Pops Mohamed and Dave Reynolds are set to perform at the Rainbow Restaurant at 23 Stanfield Lane, Pinetown on Sunday, August 7.

Pops, South Africa’s leading indigenous contempory cross-over artist is back with long time collaborator Dave. Joining the duo is no stranger to the Rainbow, Wake Mahlobo on drums and new to the Rainbow stage is Charlton Daniels on bass. Continue reading

Midlands diva, Cat Simoni, to perform at the Rhumbelow Theatre

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THE Rhumbelow Theatre’s in Pietermaritzburg and Durban will be hosting The Way We Were!, a fabulous tribute show in which Midlands diva, Cat Simoni, does the songs of Barbra Streisand in her own inimitable show.

The show, which has been written and directed by Paul Spence, will be staged at the Rhumbelow Theatre – Pietermaritzburg at the Allan Wilson Shellhole in Alan Paton Avenue, at 2 pm and 6.30 pm on Sunday, July 31; and at the Rhumbelow Theatre in Cunningham Avenue, Umbilo, Durban at 8 pm on Friday, August 5, 8 pm on Saturday, August 6 and at 2 pm and 6.30 pm on Sunday, August 7. Continue reading