International Guitar Night South Africa

Venue:  George Museum

Tickets : R100 – R165

The International Guitar Night’s (IGN) summer series will be held at the Olympia Bakery, Kalk Bay, Cape Town from 30 November to 9 December 2012 and brings a focus to acoustic guitarists who not only play the guitar, purely instrumentally, but use their skills to provide a scintillating and multi-textured accompaniment to their voices. 

Canadian Joel Fafard is a perfect example of this art and brings his evocative, hilarious show to Cape Town for IGN’s summer series. Local acoustic guitarist, Tony Cox has toured extensively with Fafard in Canada and says; ‘Joel is one of the true gents of this world, ridiculously talented, a great player, great singer, humble and so very down-to-earth… he gets all this across in his shows with the greatest of ease.’

On the bill is another Canadian, Natasha Meister, who is making a name for herself in South Africa and is IGN’s first female guitarist. Acoustic guitar guru Tony Cox IGN’s creator will also perform.

International Guitar Night is a series of performances held every summer and winter to bring to our South African doorstep the world’s greatest and most accomplished acoustic guitar players of the world today. IGN’s main focus is on those players who use their right-hand fingers to individually pluck the strings creating bass, rhythm, melody and percussive lines all at the same time, like a mini-orchestra coaxed out by the fingers of the right hand.

Performances are on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays: 30 November, 1/2/7/8/9 December 2012. Fridays at 20.00, Saturdays 21.00 and Sundays at 18.30.

The Olympia Bakery is in theOlympiaBuilding, cornerMain RoadandSt Johns Road,KalkBay,Cape Town.

Tickets cost R185. Book through Computicket, Shoprite and Checkers outlets. Call 0861 915 8000, on line www.computicket.com

R5 will be donated from each ticket sold to theKronendalMusicAcademywho provide music education to theHoutBay’s under-privileged and economically challenged communities.

On Saturday 1 Dec Joel Fafard will be giving a 75 minute workshop at the Constantia Waldorf School at 10h00 – Spaanschemat River Rd, Constantia. Booking is essential through tonycox@netactive.co.za and cost is R120 per person.

IGN is grateful for the generous sponsorship received from their principal sponsor, Global Migration SA together with Fine Music Radio and Paul Bothner.

Issued on behalf of Tony Cox

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For more media information, photos and interviews please contact

Berniece Friedmann 021 434 4951 / 082 892 5877 bernfried@kingsley.co.za

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