If the old adages ‘Laughter is the best medicine’ and ‘Music is food for the soul’ are true, then Highway residents are in for a healthy dose of good entertainment!
Hillcrest Christian Academy hosts its Annual Children’s Arts Festival, Crestfest, on Wednesday 17 August at 18h30. This year, the line-up includes comedian Mark Palmer, Kearsney College Choir, the Durban City orchestra and local Primary School choirs, with a focus on light and entertaining music and song, with Mark Palmer’s unique brand of humour weaving a dizzy thread through the evening.
Tickets are R40, R30 for pensioners and children under the age of 13 enter free if accompanied by an adult. Available from HCA (031-7652752) and Hillcrest KwikSpar.
All smiles
Mark Palmer combines clean, hilarious humour with inspiration like no other comedian working today. With a legal qualification and many years working in the legal and finance world, Mark traded business for comedy and has never looked back.
Recently returned from the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, he gets his material from the daily perils of being newly married, babysitting other people’s kids, airport madness, the advances of technology and general social commentary. His smart brand of comedy has made him an audience favourite wherever he performs.
Heavenly sounds
Since 1996 the Kearsney College Choir’s performances have achieved international recognition. In July 2010 the choir took part in the 6th World Choir Games in Shaoxing, China where they won a gold medal. Kearsney College Choir is currently ranked 19th on the Musica Mundi World Ranking List and is the top folklore choir out of more than 3500 groups.
Bernard Krüger was appointed in 2009 to succeed Angela Stevens as Director of Music at Kearsney College. He was conductor of the world-renowned Drakensberg Boys’ Choir from 2006 to 2008 and has already stamped a new seal of excellence on the Kearsney College Choir. Boys at Kearsney College range from 14 to 18 years and practise choir in-between their busy academic and sporting programmes.
Hitting the right notes
The Durban City Orchestra is one of the oldest orchestra’s in the country, with roots dating back to the 1880s. An amateur orchestra, the DCO prides itself on entertaining and varied programmes, including popular music, light classical music and full symphonic repertoire.
Putting on numerous concerts every year, the DCO has established quite a reputation in and around Durban Music circles as a fun and enjoyable group who are playing for the love of music.