Thursday 15 January 2004

This site will be updated on 22 January  2004 at 17:00

Arts - Kunste

• Like father like daughter
• Gloria and big band perform
• Handful of Keys at Barnyard
• Foot stamping show at the Grande Roche
• Sterre by La Motte
• Macbeth opens
• Mamavox at Oude Libertas

complex relationship between their work bringing together for the first time in a dedicated exhibition the work of two uniquely talented craftspeople united by blood and a passionate love of ceramics.

David graduated from the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg with an honours degree in Fine Arts in 1974.

He and his wife Michelle established Caversham Mill Pottery in the Natal Midlands and were instrumental in the formation of the Midlands Meander in the 1980's.

The studio was entirely washed away by a flood in 1987 and the family moved to Norfolk in England. The Particular Pottery was set up in 1988 in an old Particular Baptist Chapel, in the south Norfolk village of Kenninghall.

There, David became involved with the local Suffolk Craft Society, becoming Vice Chairman, and also Chairman of the Members Advisory Committee of the Craft Potters Association in London.

Having returned home to South Africa in 1998, the Studio and Gallery are now found in The Roubaix House Gallery; a large restored Cape Dutch Victorian House in the heart of Franschhoek.

Sarah graduated from the Norwich School of Art and Design with a degree in Fine Art Sculpture in 2001.

On her return to South Africa she began to move away from sculpture and to work increasingly in the field of ceramics.

In 2002 she was awarded the title of APSA's best New Signature in the Western Cape and has since exhibited regularly across South Africa.

TWO of the biggest names in local jazz, bandleader Mike Campbell and vocalist Gloria Bosman, will join forces on stage at the Oude Libertas Amphitheatre on Saturday.

The combination of Gloria Bosman with the Mike Campbell Big Band has been a great success in the past, and Campbell's arrangements of tunes from her recent CD's have brought the big band idiom into some of the most exciting indigenous music around.

Gloria is undoubtedly one of the most powerful and versatile singers in the country today, and the kind of artist that can front a big band and take it to another level.

The Oude Libertas programme will give listeners an exciting mix of jazz and contemporary music, ranging from Ellington and Basie to a funk version of John Lennon's Imagine and some Latin fusion from Bob Mintzer, as well as originals from the collaboration of Mike Campbell and Gloria Bosman.

Gloria has sung with a myriad artists, all of whom represent the African Jazz Renaissance, of which she is a huge part. She has shared the stage with the likes of Sibongile Khumalo, Moses Molelekwa, Tananas, Sipho Mabuse, Vusi Mahlasela, James Philips, Victor Masondo and Hugh Masekela, to name but a few.

She also had the honour of singing for both outgoing and incoming presidents when she sang for Thabo Mbeki at his Christmas dinner and for Nelson Mandela at his 80th birthday celebrations at Gallagher Estate.

Mike Campbell is a big band director of international renown, having composed and arranged for bands all over the world, particularly in the United States and Australia. Mike is Head of  Jazz Studies and Associate Professor in the South African College of Music at UCT.

The MC Big Band is comprised of Cape Town's top jazz musicians, including Kevin Gibson (drums), Shannon Mowday (alto sax), Willy Haubrich (trombone), Vaughn Fransch (trumpet), and many others well-known on the local jazz scene. There is also a strong presence of young players representing the new wave of talent coming out of the jazz programme at UCT,

Book per telephone at 809-7380.   

PIANISTS Ian von Memerty and Roelof Colyn bring their creative genius to The Barnyard Theatre at Bridgehouse for only two nights this weekend with "A Handful of Keys" after having played to sold out houses at Barnyard Theatres countrywide. 

This phenomenal production has played to more then 150 000 people, has won nine theatre awards nationally and attracted the kind of reaction, both critically and publicly, that producers dream of.

Musical tribute is paid to the likes of Vonda Shepard, Roberta Flack, Carole King and Nina Simone while men are recognised through the music of Billy Joel, Richard Clayderman, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Barry Manilow, Liberace and Elton John. 

A real crowd pleaser is "The History of Musicals" where 91 years are spanned in an unbelievable 11 minutes. Tickets are R90 (bring your own picnic). Bookings can be made on tel/fax 874 1505 or theatre@bridgehouse.org.za.

* On 30 and 31 January "Glenn Miller - The Man - The Music - The Legend" featuring the 19-piece Jonny Cooper Big Band will be performed at the Barnyard Theatre.

The 19-piece Jonny Cooper Big Band present their latest show - a tribute to the Glenn Miller Orchestra, arguably the most popular Big Band of the 1940's Swing era.

Following this remarkable life story, the show looks at Glenn's climb to fame.

Vocal tributes are sung by the Sunset Seranaders with hits of the Andrews Sisters.

THE Paarl Hospice will be presenting their annual concert on Sunday 8 February at 18:15 at the Grande Roche amphitheatre. This show will be featuring "Movies' Greatest Music".

The stars are Charl van Heyningen and Lisa Melman, joined by the pantomine and comedy actor Andre-jacques van der Merwe as Stanley, the off-beat video shop owner.

The show was written by Alan Swerdlow and Russel Salvadier, with Chris Harper as musical director and pianist.

The dynamic and diverse talents of the cast members will take us on a melodious and entertaining journey of movies' greatest hits from Casablanca to Moulin Rouge - from the thrill of Titanic to the foot stamping all time favourite Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Tickets are R150 including a finger supper and superlative wines are available from the Paarl Hospice office (Monday to Friday mornings only) in Breda Street Paarl or from Michelle Sequeira 082-574-5422, Betty Waddington 082-420-4458 or Lyn Brodovcky 072-200-1547.

IN La Motte se eerste konsertreeks vir 2004 - van Januarie tot Junie - gaan besoekende kunstenaars vanuit die buiteland sowel as 'n uiteenlopende verskeidenheid van gevierde Suid-Afrikaanse musici optree. 'n Spesiale Paas-aanbieding beloof om 'n hoogtepunt van die reeks te wees. 

Die eerste konsert is op Saterdag 31 Januarie, met 'n uitvoering deur Philippe Graffin, internasionaal bekende Franse violis wat Suid-Afrika op spesiale versoek vir die tweede keer besoek. Hy word deur Annalien Ball op die klavier begelei. Hulle speel sonates van Brahms, Ravel en Janacek.

Al die konserte word in La Motte se historiese kelder met sy rustige atmosfeer en uitmuntende akoestiek aangebied. By hulle aankoms word gaste met 'n drankie verwelkom en na afloop van elke konsert kan hulle die kunstenaars ontmoet in die geselskap van heerlike La Motte-wyne en ligte versnaperings.

Konserte begin om 19:00 en toegang is R95 per persoon. Bespreek by die proelokaal op La Motte, of tel 876-3114/9 (Comari).

* Saterdag 14 Februarie is daar 'n optrede deur die Eves Strykkwintet. Hierdie kwintet, afkomstig uit Manchester, Engeland, toer deur Suid-Afrika met 'n program wat bestaan uit strykkwartette en strykkwintette van Mozart, Mendelssohn en Shostakovich.

* Wenners van onderskeidelik die eerste en die tweede prys in die Australiese Musiekkompetisie van 2002, Magda de Vries (marimba) en Sarah Jones (saksofoon), kom op Saterdag 13 Maart aan die beurt. Hierdie twee virtuose, wat onder die titel Exposure optree, het in Mei 2003 in die Purcell Room in Londen gedebuteer.

* Die Swanwyktrio, bestaande uit André Swanepoel (viool), Cobus Swanepoel (tjello) en Wessel van Wyk (klavier), toer vir die eerste keer buite die grense van Gauteng en bied Saterdag 27 Maart 'n konsert by La Motte aan.

LAZY pre-show picnics in the park and the tranquillity of a setting midsummer sun will once again lure audiences to The Maynardville Open-Air Theatre when William Shakespeare's compelling tragedy, Macbeth, this month in a passionate and timeless incarnation.

Powered by a dynamic, brightly-talented young cast, an ingenuous design concept certain to wow and an acclaimed director (whose work has been variously described as innovative, risky and a wholly satisfying theatrical experience), the Bard's great play of merciless ambition, mayhem and madness is set to become a top crowd-pulling theatre attraction in the new year.    

It opens on Friday 16 January for an extended season with a number of special performances, including those for learners and schools.

Highly acclaimed actor, Kurt Wüstmann heads the dynamic young cast as the dangerously ambitious nobleman. His conniving, inspiring Lady Macbeth will be played by the versatile, award-winning Claire Watling.

Others in the cast are Mark Elderkin, David Johnson, Daniel Judes, Mdu Kweyama, Dumisani Mbebe, Marcel Meyers, Odidi Mfeyana, Brent Palmer, Milton Schorr, Joko Scott, Robyn Scott, Oliver Stephens, Altan Ungerer and Nick Volpe.

Book at Computicket or Artscape Dial-a-Seat 421-7695.

IMAGINE this potent mix, if you can: take the talents of four of Cape Town's best young female j azz vocalists - Amanda Tiffin, Lisa Bauer, Monique Hellenberg and Mimi Ntenjwa.

Add some saucy jazz tunes as well as funky, hip-hop-'n-happening versions of recent popular hits and other great arrangements. What you get is almost too hot to handle: the four ladies call themselves Mamavox, and they will be performing live at Oude Libertas Amphitheatre tomorrow.

Mamavox is an all-female jazz vocal ensemble, performing a mixture of jazz and popular songs, some of which are sung a capella, the rest accompanied by a jazz trio.

You can expect to here renditions of Miriam Makeba's classics, Seal's Kiss From A Rose, Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers, an a capella version of Norah Jones' Don't Know Why, some more straight ahead jazz tunes as well as funky, hip-hop-'n-happening versions of recent popular hits.

To book, phone 809 7380 or visit  the Oude Libertas Box Office in Stellenbosch.