First-ever Route 40 Music Festival at Casterbridge

The first-ever Route 40 Music Festival takes place this weekend at Casterbridge, White River. This is a collaborative venture between Casterbridge Music Development Academy (CMDA), Carnegie Hall Musical Exchange Programme New York and the Rock School Scholarship Fund in California.

The CMDA youth bands as well as talent from South African schools will perform on the Coca-Cola stage. A variety of headline acts will alternate during the day and evening at the performing arts centre and at the old Car Museum in the lifestyle centre.

Headline acts include Vusi Mahlasela, The Parlotones, Watershed, Prime Circle, Elvis Blue, Zebra and Giraffe, Tailor, Matthew Mole, Brother Moves On, Jason Hartman, Paige Mac, Verity, Daniel Baron and Rayland Baxter.

The public will also have an opportunity to meet and interact with these musicians in the Casterbridge Cinema. Here they will be able to hear stories about their favourite artists and get their autographs. Artists will also give lectures in various categories which will appeal to promising musicians.

There will be numerous exhibition stations including those of Afda Film School of South Africa, Universities of Cape Town and KwaZulu-Natal, Harry Green Music World, Rolling Stone, Fender, Harley-Davidson and World of Yamaha.

Tickets are now available on the website www.2Enable.org or from the CMDA office on 013-751-3135.