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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