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May 18, 2011 08:00 PM
to May 29, 2011 06:00 PM |
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Baxter Theatre Rondebosch, Cape Town |
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David Kramer's Breyani
In Breyani, David Kramer celebrates the rhythm, instrumentation, vocal styling and language, to create music that is unmistakably and uniquely from the Cape.
Last year, the original version of David Kramer's Breyani was performed at the KKNK in Oudtshoorn, where David received a Kanna award for Exceptional Contribution to a Contemporary Music Production. It had originally been commissioned by the Suidoosterfees in 2009 and was then called Kaapse Breyani.
A 10-piece band includes Camillo Lombard on piano accordian and Gammie Lakay on acoustic lead guitar. Donveno Prins, who wowed audiences in The Kramer Petersen Songbook and 3 Wiser Men, plays saxophone. Former member of DNA Strings Jacques Steyn plays mandolin and bass. Veterans of klopse bands Howard Links and Charlie Rhode play banjo, mandolin, and guitar, taking the moppie, the vastrap, the ghoemaliedjie and the tiekiedraai to new heights. From the stages of musical theatre and Malay Choir competitions, Loukmaan Adams sings and beats the ghoema drum. The much loved Sonskyn Sisters, Ruth Hector and Elspeth Davids sing their hearts out with a combination of cherished Cape standards and folk songs as well as material written especially for this production. David Kramer plays MC and drops in a song here and there!
"Kramer is brilliant at making points about this country without confronting his audience" Pretoria News
"Ek stap uit en lek nog my lippe" Krit
"Dazzling array of musicians" The Star
South African Polo 2012
