Cyril Neville.
Great news for music lovers! The International Arts Foundation Inc. from the United States of America, in association with The Playhouse Company, hosts New Orleans-born, Grammy-Award-winning music legend, Cyril Neville and Durban’s own South African Music Award winner, Ernie Smith, in The Playhouse Opera Theatre on Thursday, 4 May at 7.30pm. Continue reading
The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic will be performing at the Michaelhouse Music Festival.
Music lovers will be heading to the hills for the third annual Michaelhouse Music Festival, taking place over the month-end April long weekend. The four-day festival kicks off on Freedom day on Thursday, 27 April and concludes on Sunday, 30 April. Continue reading
Rubber Duc will be performing at the Michaelhouse Music Festival.
Music lovers are invited to head to the hills for the third annual Michaelhouse Music Festival, taking place over the month-end April long weekend. The four-day festival kicks off on Freedom Day on Thursday, 27 April and concludes on Sunday, 30 April.
Pietermaritzburg’s very own Idols star and student teacher and last year’s winner of Idols SA season 12, Noma Khumalo, who will be joined by legendary vocalist, Sibongile Khumalo.
Big names that will be performing at the festival are Cape Town based live electronic duo, The Kiffness, Easy Freak (a new Durban-based two-piece performing an eclectic mix of funk/pop/soul/electro and other sounds combined) and Rubber Duc, an independent, fresh, four-piece band.
Also on the bill is Michaelhouse’s very own Pillar Box Red comprising of four pupils.
Ending the festival on a high note will be Africa’s foremost professional orchestra, the KZN Philharmonic led jointly by maestro Richard Cock and Michaelhouse’s William Silk.
For more information like the festival’s Facebook page: Michaelhouse Music Festival, contact the school on 033 234 1000 or log on to www.michaelhouse.org.
Tickets are available to purchase from www.tickethut.co.za/michaelhouse
Heels Over Head are (from left) Rebekah Doty, Thulile Zama, Lindi Ngonelo. Photographer: Vulane Mthembu.
As part of the Rhumbelow Theatre’s Tina’s and Tunes Music Festival at Tina’s Hotel in Kloof, jazz fans can enjoy a performance by Heels over Head on Saturday, April 15. Continue reading
Fans of Fleetwood Mac are in for a treat when some of Durban’s finest musicians take to the stage of the Rhumbelow Theatre – Pietermaritzburg at the Alan Wilson Shellhole in Alan Paton Avenue (Durban Road) at 8pm on Saturday, March 25 and 2pm and 6.30pm on Sunday, March 26.
The Chain – The Fleetwood Mac Story features The Reals – Barry Thomson , Dawn Selby, Mali Sewell and Jason Andrew – as well as guest guitarist Colin Peddie and singer Marion Loudon. Continue reading
FOR the March instalment of the monthly Music Revival concerts, pianist Christopher Duigan turns his hand to a light-hearted selection of charming popular classics in Tales from Grandmother’s Piano Album. Continue reading
Formed in early 2015, all three members of this fun, alternative rock band have been part of the Durban music scene for a long time. The band is made up of Shane Strachan on vocals and guitar, Steven Murray on guitars and vocals, Raul Diaz on drums and percussion and Jon-Claude Stirling on bass guitar.
Entry is R30 before 9pm, and R40 thereafter.
Andrew Young
The Butlers Restaurant at 24 Old Main Road in Hillcrest will be hosting Sounds for Hounds at 12 noon on March 5. The fundraising concert, which is in aid of Pet Rescue, will feature saxophonist, Andrew Young, who is out from Austria on a tour around South Africa.
To book your rickets email soundsforhounds@gmail.com or send an SMS to Jill at 082 412 8069.
In association with Concerts SA, Johannesburg-based percussionist, Volley Nchabeleng, reaches the final stop stop on his ‘Africa, My Home’ tour when he hits the stage at the State Theatre in Pretoria at 7pm on Friday, March 3.
Tickets are R100 – phone 012 392 4000 or go online at www.computicket.com
From left: Maggie Deppe, Sandra Bailey, Roberto Palma and Myfanwy Price.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Baroque 2000 and the season starts with a celebratory programme at the Church of the Monastery, Mariannhill, on Sunday, March 5. Continue reading
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