Come and Fall in Love with a Guitarist at the Baxter Theatre – Book By 5 August!


The set 
There certainly isn't a bigger fix than a jazz mix, and from the moment we walked into the Concert Hall at the Baxter Theatre last night at 8pm, we knew we were going to get exactly that!

A music-lover once said to me that “music is what feelings sound like” and I have never heard it said more accurately than that. Last night at 'I'm In Love With A Guitarist' I was trying to define what Jonathan Rubain's music feels like: a serenading, and that Old Skwl playlist on Heart 104.9 when there's Sunday lunch and life appears to be so ordinary, until that bass on that Toto song starts playing and you're reminded of the extraordinary pulse of life.

Jonathan Rubain was accompanied by an impressive band – two keyboardists, a djembe drummer who plays chimes, a bass drummer, a bass guitarist, a saxophone player and two back-up vocalists. The show featured a range of guitarists, with Jonathan intermittingly on lead guitar and vocals.

Their playlist included some originals and jazz favourites, such as Reason To Smile, Sugar Shake and Lately – with the lead keyboardist on vocals presented as Stewie Wonder himself! The show also featured appearances by Jazzyard Academy from Bonteheuwel (we definitely want to this young band again sometime!) and stories by Jonathan paying tribute to the late and much-loved Errol Dyers who performed at previous shows. 

At the end of the 120-minute show, my hart het omtrent geklop and in that moment Shaun (yes, my friend and fellow blogger mos!) reminded me that I had genuinely fallen in love with a guitarist! 





'I'm in Love with a Guitarist' is playing until 5 August 2017. Book at Computicket! For more on the show and ticket prices: http://www.baxter.co.za/shows/im-love-guitarist/

'Carpe Diem' review of the show:


Preview of the show published in the Baxter Diary of Events prior to the passing of Errol Dyers 

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