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NADINE BLOM
SE SUPERCOOL
KIDS VIR JESUS
Meer inligting volg binnekort...
Fanie Velskoen
Die Kabaret, Jan van Riebeek
en
die
Strandloper
het in September 2008 die lig gesien en het nou
al op verskeie feeste, dorpe en strandverhoe gespeel.
Jan van Riebeek
,
gespeel deur
Fanie Velskoen
ontmoet vir Harry
Die Strandloper
in 2010, en nie in 1652 nie! Hulle dryf die spot, misverstaan mekaar en
dit alles in modern Suid Afrika.
Kort komiese dialoog lei tot baie baie mooi liedjies, spesiaal geskryf
deur
Fanie Velskoen
, Stef Kruger en ander.
Die Strandloper
word gespeel deur n Engelsman, John Harris wat 3 soorte Ghitare,
keyboard en trompet kan speel, hy is baie snaaks en hoef omtrent nie
toneel te speel om snaaks te wees nie! Die klankbaan van die stuk is
Fanie Velskoen
se 3de CD en is n versameling van 19 baie mooi
liedjies en het Mariana Malan van Die Burger Fanie beskryf as
Die
man met die goue stem
en die musiek van die stuk as
pure
luistergenot.
Op 5 Maart kom hulle na Potters Place in Jeffreysbaai en duur die Jan
van Riebeek gedeelte +- 40 min waarna daar n kort pouse sal wees.
Hierna kom Fanie en John sonder kostuums terug om die gehoor vir n
verdere 40 min op hul musiek te trakteer.
BRIAN FINCH
For more info on Brian visit his website @
www.brianfinch.co.za
SHANNON HOPE
Music has the ability to take you to places that you cant always
access in everyday life
. This is why we need artists like
Durban-based Shannon Hope. Her music is emotive, evocative, and
delivered with such honesty that you cant help believing every single
word. Hope is an exceptionally honest performer. She gets into those
emotional places we often block out, with such ease and sincerity that
you wonder if she doesnt perhaps live there permanently. There were
moments where she forgot the audience, and became lost in the music
itself; the effect was simply mesmerising. Defining Hopes genre is
slippery: sometimes folk, sometimes pop, sometimes jazz it seems to
crossover to something new. Hope calls it
Art Pop
, since her
music is strongly lyric-based, a genre chosen to fit each songs style
rather than the other way around. Hope trained as a classical pianist so
the music is technically tight. And while her lyrics are undoubtedly
profound, Hopes true strength is the emotional states she creates
especially through her voice control. She is not afraid to reveal
herself and often just uses vocals and keyboards to do so. Her music is
raw, uncompromising and penetrating. From the melancholic
Blue Skies
to the playful and lovesick
Oh Boy
, her album covers a wide range
of human experiences honestly and intelligently. Hope is brave and real,
and her outstanding performance took me places I hadnt been in years.
Dont miss it.
Channel 24, Oct 2009
Shannon Hope is a South African born
piano-based vocal artist
who writes her own version of Art Pop that is intriguingly powerful, yet
delicately moving in its artistry.
In only the first six months of launching her solo career, Shannon Hope
had recorded and released her debut solo album entitled STILL, gained
playlisting on radio stations across the country, and embarked on
national promotional tours, performing on some of the countrys premier
music platforms with some of its most revered artists including Prime
Circle, John Ellis (Tree63), Josie Field, and Plush. Her extensive
musical journey has seen her grace the esteemed stages of The Barnyard
Theatre, Splashy Fen Festival, Woodstock SA, The White Mountain Folk
Festival, Oppikoppi, Music at the Lake, as well as The Metro Theatre in
Chicago. Her brief sojourns in America in the early days of her music
career earned her the opportunity of recording a five track EP in 2004,
with Chicagos high profile producer, Bjorn Thorsrud (of Smashing
Pumpkins and Zwan fame). It is her vast experience over the past years
that now have her poised to become a respected force on the local scene,
and she is fast gaining a reputation as one of the hardest-touring
self-managed artists on the national circuit.
Her debut solo endeavour is classed within an alternative
adult-contemporary genre, and is a mature and remarkably honest eleven
track studio album, co-produced with Tim Rankin at his Cape Town studio,
and recorded in a mere five days. Released on 1 April 2009, STILL
delivers the thoughtfully personal and often heart-wrenching sincerity
of an artist whose music forces you to feel, with a voice impossible to
ignore.
For more information, visit
www.shannonhope.co.za
DAN
PATLANSKY
Dan has also been approached by Danny
K to collaborate with him on a song to be recorded by top South African
performers in the fight against crime.
Dan over the years, has shared the
stage many times with legendry blues artists and guitarists such as
Larry Amos, Julian Laxton, Steve Fataar (ex Beach Boys / Flames), Cedric
Sampson, Valiant Swart, The Late big voice Jack (who performed with
Mango Groove and the Dave Mathews Band) and Alistair Coakley. Dan
recently performed at The Catalina Theatre in Durban with Vicki Sampson.
Dan has been played and/or play
listed by many South African DJs and stations such as 5FM, East Coast
radio, SAFM Radio 2000, O FM, Bush Radio, countless student stations and
Radio To-day (Benjy Mudie, Rafe Levine, Phil Wright, Chris Prior, David
Blood, Leon Economedes).
This young blues guitarist has now
released his third album
Real
which showcases his
song-writing abilities using an earthy live blues sound with his own
take on it.
Real
has attracted great reviews and articles in
most acclaimed magazines.
His album
Real
is played
in Australia on 101 FM and in America on WWOZ FM New Orleans on which
Dan played live and on which he has been play listed since 2005.
Real and Patlansky received a
brilliant
review in the May
/ June 2008 edition (Issue 43) of top Blues Magazine, Blues Matters!,
which circulates throughout the UK, Europe, Canada and Australia. Out
of approximately 150 CD Reviews of Albums by UK, European, Canadian,
Australian and American artists, accredited critic, Merv Osborne had
this, amongst other things, to say about Real and Patlansky:
I dont think Im going to hear a
better album all year. ..... Its gonna have to be a truly superb CD to
better this one (full text on Dans web site).
Real
is also about to be reviewed by top UK music journalist Rhys Williams
for intended publication in other UK magazines and some top American
Blues Magazines
TONY COX
Tony has made steady in-roads into several countries
since moving to the UK in 2008. Canada in particular has seen a steady
increase in awareness of Tonys musical abilities; witnessed by the
increased attendance figures at many of the venues he has performed in
and visited for the second time. His album
The Best of Tony Cox
has been released through the retail outlets in Canada.
Italy too has proved to be an exciting new audience and his one
performance at the Madame International Guitar festival last September
in Tricessimo, resulted in several creative, musical friendships and a
return journey just months later to the Emmas festival in Sardegna which
has then led to other festival offers for 2010.
The USA is also now proving to be a good playing ground for this African
guitarist with his last tour there, covering Colorado and California,
yielding many invites for a return in 2010. His visit also led to an
interview and performance filmed at the Red Kiva in Chicago for the
africachannel on Sky TV in the UK and cable across the US. Several
recording projects lay ahead for the guitarist. In Canada he will begin
work in June on new guitar music with extraordinary Canadian guitarist
Ryan le Blanc. Ryan and Tony have toured together several times in
Canada and have sparked a unique friendship that has also resulted in a
unique guitar collaboration. While in Italy another strong friendship
was formed with one of Sardegnas finest guitar players, Alberto Balia.
Neither can speak the other's language but no matter, because the music
they make together knows no boundaries. They collaborated at the Emmas
festival and appeared on stage together after a single days rehearsal to
a wild and appreciative audience. Recording and touring with Alberto are
set for late in 2010.
The UK for the time being has become home to Tony and
his family. Tony has already performed extensively across the isle at
festivals, arts centres, folk clubs and other music venues and has just
completed a delightful collaboration with young Scottish fiddlers at the
Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, Scotland.
Tony spent last August at the Edinburgh festival where
he was described in one national newspaper as a unique and individual
voice among the plethora of guitar players out there.
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