Big acts lined up for annual music festival
The annual Music in the Mountains Festival will be held by Drakensberg Boys on the Easter weekend.
DRAKENSBERG Boys Choir School is excited to present its annual Music in the Mountains Festival from Friday, 19 to Sunday, 1 April.
The weekend promises to be a festive one, filled with music, delicious foods and drink, quality stalls, and so much more.
The main events are Loki Rothman (Friday night performance), the Saturday Pop Gala (performed by the Johannesburg Youth Orchestra and the Drakensberg Boys Choir), and the Mozart Requiem (performed by the Drakensberg Boys Choir, St David’s Marist Inanda, Johannesburg Youth Orchestra, and the Drakensberg Boys Choir Old Boys).
The Mozart Requiem performance on Sunday will be of a religious nature. Visiting school choirs are Whitestone (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), Jacaranda Children’s Choir (Pretoria), Glenstantia Primary School (Pretoria) and St David’s Marist Inanda (Johannesburg). On the Fringe Stage will be popular Pretoria girl-band, ‘Saarkie’; and local band ‘The Family Business’ (led by Dave Atkinson), among others.
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The Saturday evening main act for the gala performance ‘Philharmonic Pop’ will feature the Joburg Youth Orchestra and the Drakensberg Boys Choir.
In this collaboration of epic proportions, the Joburg Youth Orchestra and Drakensberg Boys Choir are pulling out all the stops to entertain and delight fans.
Music from the Movies and Broadway, some serious Rock songs and a few power-pop-hits will ensure that toes are tapping, hands are clapping and leave the audience begging for more.
The Joburg Youth Orchestra will be conducted by maestro Eddie Clayton, along with the artistic team behind the Drakensberg Boys Choir, Bernard Krüger and Tobias Stückelberger.
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