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    • The show is a musical journey through the history of the Blues movement with stories and music from the guys and gals that were there at the time. The show gives a personal insight into the musical style of Blues and the people that influenced it. 02:06 pm

      PRESS RELEASE: GOING BACK TO THE CROSSROADS FEATURES ON 12 FEBRUARY AT THE OLD MUTUAL SUMMER SUNSET CONCERT

      The show is a musical journey through the history of the Blues movement with stories and music from the guys and gals that were there at the time. The show gives a personal insight into the musical style of Blues and the people that influenced it.

    • This year’s Cape Town International Jazz Festival will take on March 30 and 31. In its 13th year, the festival continues to titillate South African audiences with the finest in local and international performers at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). The headliners reflect the festival's philosophy of broadening audience's perspectives of what is understood as 'jazz'. 01:23 pm

      LOOKING FORWARD: CAPE JAZZ FESTIVAL UNVEILS MUSICAL GEMS

      This year’s Cape Town International Jazz Festival will take on March 30 and 31. In its 13th year, the festival continues to titillate South African audiences with the finest in local and international performers at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). The headliners reflect the festival’s philosophy of broadening audience’s perspectives of what is understood as ‘jazz’.

    • This show definitely won’t lighten the load that money places on you, but it will lift the emotional burden associated with cash, even if just for a while. Ultimately, it will change your perspective on those little coins, notes and cards in your wallet. I’ll put my money on that.01:20 pm

      REVIEW: MONEY’S TOO TIGHT TO MENTION

      This show definitely won’t lighten the load that money places on you, but it will lift the emotional burden associated with cash, even if just for a while. Ultimately, it will change your perspective on those little coins, notes and cards in your wallet. I’ll put my money on that.

    • Now it could be that they are quite genuinely all good mates, but the guest appearances of not only Ross Learmonth, lead singer of Prime Circle, but Theo Crous, lead guitar for the Springbok Nude Girls, led a further endorsement to the rising star that is Dan Patlansky. This boy is going places and even those who have already ‘made it’ want to be a part of the ride.02:55 pm

      REVIEW: DAN PATLANSKY & NATASHA MEISTER

      Now it could be that they are quite genuinely all good mates, but the guest appearances of not only Ross Learmonth, lead singer of Prime Circle, but Theo Crous, lead guitar for the Springbok Nude Girls, led a further endorsement to the rising star that is Dan Patlansky. This boy is going places and even those who have already ‘made it’ want to be a part of the ride.

    • Following hot on the heels of the massively successful Phantom of the Opera, Pieter Toerien has brought the Russian Imperial Ice Stars back to the Artscape. Adding the suffix “on Ice” to any production makes it seem more impressive, much like having Ryan Gosling on a movie poster. 011:26 am

      REVIEW: NUTCRACKER ON ICE

      Following hot on the heels of the massively successful Phantom of the Opera, Pieter Toerien has brought the Russian Imperial Ice Stars back to the Artscape. Adding the suffix “on Ice” to any production makes it seem more impressive, much like having Ryan Gosling on a movie poster.

    • When I first heard of Conrad Koch I feared he may be an imperfect rip off of the internationally-known Jeff Dunham. I was pleasantly surprised at how wrong I was.03:56 pm

      REVIEW: PUPPET ASYLUM

      When I first heard of Conrad Koch I feared he may be an imperfect rip off of the internationally-known Jeff Dunham. I was pleasantly surprised at how wrong I was.

    • I always thought only old people liked opera. Yet there are certain opera pieces that are universally adored: ‘Nessum Dorma’ thanks to the 1990 World Cup, The Toreador Song from Carmen is sung – with other words – in the school playground, ‘O Sole Mio’ became the jingle for a famous ice cream advert, and there are plenty more that have transcribed themselves into the public consciousness.01:50 pm

      LOOKING AHEAD: CAPE TOWN OPERA SEASON 2012

      I always thought only old people liked opera. Yet there are certain opera pieces that are universally adored: ‘Nessum Dorma’ thanks to the 1990 World Cup, The Toreador Song from Carmen is sung – with other words – in the school playground, ‘O Sole Mio’ became the jingle for a famous ice cream advert, and there are plenty more that have transcribed themselves into the public consciousness.

    • When the first bars of this classic played out across the gardens, the crowd reacted as one body with everyone leaping up to dance. It gave me goosebumps.010:05 am

      REVIEW: JOHNNY CLEGG

      When the first bars of this classic played out across the gardens, the crowd reacted as one body with everyone leaping up to dance. It gave me goosebumps.

    • I thought the idea of this season’s Shakespeare in the Park, The Comedy of Errors, being inspired by 1970s kung fu films was merely a whimsical one, but director Matthew Wild confirms the choice was a carefully considered one: “Here is a genre in which the tone may switch very rapidly from slapstick to genuine danger to romance… a world in which Shakespeare’s gender politics make sense and, most crucially, a cultural reference which resonates strongly with a wide cross-section of South Africans.”012:03 pm

      REVIEW: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

      I thought the idea of this season’s Shakespeare in the Park, The Comedy of Errors, being inspired by 1970s kung fu films was merely a whimsical one, but director Matthew Wild confirms the choice was a carefully considered one: “Here is a genre in which the tone may switch very rapidly from slapstick to genuine danger to romance… a world in which Shakespeare’s gender politics make sense and, most crucially, a cultural reference which resonates strongly with a wide cross-section of South Africans.”

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