Take Two Duo & Baobab 3
Peter Narun, one half of Take Two’s Guitar & Violin duo, and a third of the wonderful Jazzy Baobab 3, left for a holiday to Japan and China a few days after performing for Lenny & I at our grandmother Bibi’s 79th birthday at the Mount Nelson early in July.
It was just a small evening cocktail get-together of about 25 of her closest, and I knew Peter & Kerryn Torrance would be perfect for the evening. Not over-powering, subtly elegant, and so lekka to see them even enjoying themselves that they created a warm atmosphere on a cold Cape night. Continue reading ‘Mount Fuji - Peter Narun’s greetings’
We are so lucky to be in contact with not only some of the most beautiful artists in the world, but some of the strongest too! Take Genevieve Drolet from Canada - she is a product of the Quebec Circus School, and has taken Master Classes in Hand Balance, on canes and on the aerial cube.
Not only does she perform in the most graceful style, but without hesitation or the slightest effort it seems, she has complete control over her every move.
Genvieve is also a member of Peak’s Aerial Cube Trio, as I mentioned in a previous post. Continue reading ‘Hand-balance - Canada’
While at Milestone Studio’s last week with Robert Trunz, we bumped into Warrick of the Kalahari Surfers. He is the sole remaining member of the group that started making music as a string of studio projects in 1982, and is still on the fore-front of electronic music today.
The Kalahari Surfers have been pushing the limits of South African music for over two decades pioneering the use of filtered beats, tape loops, exotic samples and old school electronica in SA music at a time when everyone still thought the electric guitar was cool. Continue reading ‘Kalahari Surfers - Kicked by the ball’
Tonight I was very pleasantly surprised to see an artist I really admire, and have had the pleasure of working with a number of times - Teba Shumba - appear in SABC 1’s Headwrap. Known as Teba and also the “Origional Social Worker”, “The Shepard”, “Mr Shumba” & “Teba 20-5-2-1 Digitally”, he and Chris Chameleon, formerly of BOO, were introduced to each other and put together on stage after two short rehearsals to perform: Continue reading ‘Teba - the Origional Social Worker’
In July 2002, magician Jacques le Sueur and myself were two of the first South African’s to be invited to perform at the Pflasterspektakel or Street Performing Festival in Linz, Austria. Its a very hectic festival that draws some 500 000 spectators coming to enjoy some 600 artists over three days!
I met so many talented people there from all over the world, the cream of the street performing crop you could say, with shows varying from musical to magical. Continue reading ‘The Flaming Butterflies’
Take Two Duo & Baobab 3
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