Melting Pot Choral Festival at Carnival
Adding to the potpourri of sing and dance will be the acclaimed The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra
AFTER a successful national tour, the greatest choral music event on the continent is making its way to Carnival City for the 2014 Melting Pot National Choral Festival, A Tribute to OR Tambo, this month.
The best of the best in South African choral music will be fraying 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 performances days is accompanied by an addition of other genres of entertainment by some of Mzansi’s top music artists and an addition of choirs from around the continent.
On the entertainment list will be the irresistible Sibongile Khumalo, Solly Mahlangu, 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.
Adding to the potpourri of sing and dance will be the acclaimed The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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 créme of choral music is in honour of Oliver Reginald Tambo, who was a former school choir conductor at St Peters.The top 10 competing choirs are Bagale Chorus, Zwelitsha Adult Choir, Heavenly Voices, Gauteng Choristers, Belcanto Voices, SA Singers, Transnet Port Terminals, Kopano Chorus, African Chorus and Thabong Serenade.
The event will start at 9am on both days. Tickets are available at Computicket at R350 for both days.
