Songbirds to compete for title
With the grand prize of R500 000 at stake, choral music lovers should expect well-polished musical offerings.
After a successful national tour that saw choirs belting out songs that could melt the hardest of hearts, the greatest choral music event on the continent is making its way to Carnival City in Ekurhuleni for the 2014 Melting Pot National Choral Festival, a Tribute to OR Tambo, this October.
The event will be held to celebrate 20 years of democracy in South Africa, with sounds that will melt your heart.
The best of the best in South African choral music will be vying for the biggest choral music title in the country.
With the grand prize of R500 000 at stake, choral music lovers should expect well-polished musical offerings.
The ever-growing Melting Pot Choral Festival Competition will take place over two days on October 18 and 19. The increase in performance days is accompanied by an addition of other genres of entertainment by some of Mzansi’s top music artists. There is also the addition of choirs from around the continent as well.
The entertainment list includes the irresistible Sibongile Khumalo, Solly Mahlangu, the Jaziel Brothers, Afro Tenors, Njabulo Madlala and Igrandi Tenori. Dance floor king Zakes Bantwini and laugh till you drop queen Celeste Ntuli, the East Rand Male Symphony Choir Ekurhuleni, Mbizana Village EC and Fumana High School choirs will also keep the audience glued to their seats.
The Serumula Performing Arts Academy of Lesotho, His Majesty Correctional Services of Swaziland and Maseno University Choir of Kenya will also be representing the African continent at the finals.
The Melting Pot Choral Festival Competition has grown to become one of the prime choral music events in the country and beyond. With ground breaking choral music workshops, choral music adjudicators from as far afield as Britain, and the revival of choral music in Mpumalanga Province, are just but some of the successes notched in a short space of time.
This gathering of the crème de la crème of choral music is in honour of one of South Africa’s greatest sons, Oliver Reginald Tambo, who was a former school choir conductor at St. Peters School. He was first introduced to formal music at Embhobeni, and it became a lifelong activity and hobby. He was also a renowned choral music composer.
The event will start at 9am and will continue until late. Book at Computicket.
