St. Albans College Road Show on its way to the city
The St. Albans College Road Show will soon be making their way to Polokwane as they are now entertaining different parts of Limpopo with their cultural group.
POLOKWANE – The group is inclusive of 50 entertainers from the choir, barbershop, band, drum circle, gumboot dancers and many other acts.
The St. Albans College’s Director of activities Nico du Plessis, explained that with their dynamic and light hearted performances, this promises to be great entertainment for the province. The choir has competed in the World Choir Games held in Austria in 2008, acquiring a silver medal. The choir alongside with the barberbershop group of entertainers and other performers also toured through Europe, the US and China in 2008, 2010 and 2015.
“Our choir has 78 members and 35 of them are in the road show. The performances are vibrant and exciting and often get the audience’s feet tapping and they also sing along as we usually sing and dance to familiar and well-known songs,” Nico added.
He further added that the wide variety in their performances are meant to appeal to the taste of individuals of all ages and promises to be an event which will remain in the audience’s memories for an extended period of time. The choir’s music ranges from religious to rock and African rhythms. The barberbershop, trained by St. Albans College’s art and drama Director Mark Stenhouse, ranges from gospel tunes to more modern jazz and rock tunes.
The college band trained by the choir choir conductor and Director of music Rainer von Schlichting, plays instruments such as the saxophone, trumpet, flute, guitar, bass guitar, double bass, cello, violin, drums, djembes, the keyboard and includes vocals in which they also play jazz and rock.
Drum circle, which is also combined with the band, comprises a group of musicians who make use of percussion instruments and perform with the band and choir but who on some occasions, venture out alone. The group is also coordinated by Rainer von Schlichting who also arranges their rehearsals.
The gumboot dancers have put together a vibrant performance with a touch of humour, ego and charm, this all under the initiative and leadership of Thapelo Mokone.
The road show has already made its appearance at the Waterberg High School in Mokopane on Wednesday, 28 February and will soon be making their way to Hoërskool Ben Vorster in Tzaneen on Thursday, 1 March at 0:20 and at Stanford Lake College in Haenertsburg on the same day at 19:00.
The road show will end off their tour in Polokwane at Mitchell House College at 11:00 and at the Mall of the North at 15:00 on Friday, 2 March.
