Des and Dawn at Christmas brunch
Booking for the annual Tuesday Rostrum Christmas brunch, with guest entertainers Des and Dawn Lindberg, closes on November 13, so make sure you don’t miss out.
To book for this festive prelude to the holiday season contact Kitty Steenmans at 083 2543886 or Jenny Robertson at 039 6823097. Tickets are R160 for members and R185 for guests. It takes place at the Estuary Hotel on Tuesday, November 26, at 10am. Everyone is welcome to join the ‘friendly, thinking women’s club’ for a journey back to the past with Des and Dawn.
The legendary musical duo will also appear at two other South Coast venues. They will present their multi-media show, ‘Des and Dawn Still Truckin’, featuring all their hit songs from the ’60s to the present day at Azalea Hall, Village of Happiness, on Saturday, November 23 at 7pm and at Mbango Hall on Saturday November 30 at 6pm.
‘Truckin’ is a journey of songs, memories, music, pictures and laughter and tells the story of their lives together as partners in marriage and on stage. Songs include ‘The Seagull’s Name was Nelson’, ‘Die Gezoem van die Bye’, ’16 Rietfonteins’, ‘Here we all are in Africa’, ‘Die Kleinhuisie’, ‘Baby it’s Cold Outside’ , ‘Ramblin’ Boy’ and many others.
The songs are illustrated with over 1 000 digital images from their albums which are projected onto a screen. SA’s original ‘gypsy rovers’ recall their journey which began in the coffee bars of Hillbrow. They tell their story from the folk songs days at the Troubadour, ‘Godspell’, the soirées at their home on Houghton Ridge, their sons, Josh and Adam and much more.
Des and Dawn have been part of the South African music and theatre world for 48 years. Before the advent of television, they took their show, ‘Folk on Trek’ to every town, dorpie and city in South Africa and what was then Rhodesia. They lived in a caravan for three years, performing in theatres, school halls, hotels, hangars, sheds and in the open air (where people brought their own chairs and picnic blankets).
In 1970 they moved into their Victorian mansion on Houghton Ridge where they lived for 35 years. Built in 1903 the house had views over Johannesburg’s northern suburbs to the Magaliesburg mountains. They ran their legendary Sunday soirées from the oak beamed hall and featured artists like Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, Patrick Mynhardt, Tessa Ziegler, Mark Banks and the Drakensburg Boys’ Choir.
They now live in Parktown North. Dawn is the executive director of the Naledi Theatre Awards which recognises and honours excellence in SA theatre, and Des writes and records most of their songs.
“We are really excited to be coming to the South Coast again after so long,” said Dawn. “It’s such a peaceful and beautiful part of the country and we are looking forward to a few days’ break between shows to swim in the warm sea.”
“We had a holiday home in Southbroom until a few years ago,” said Des. “I used to love fishing from the rocks and going for walks along the unspoiled beaches.”
For details about the Azalea performance, contact: 039 3125701 and for the Mbango performance, contact Karin Lehmann at 039 6825251 ext 1020 or 082 4510226.
