Hope In Love

this weekend i was in cape town visiting my mom and i dragged her to go see some music with me. anyway, ended up enjoying it so very much. following is the post i put up on my music review blog. it’s good to see young people doing stuff like this…it encouraged and inspired me so big up to the bric students!

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so inspired. a bunch of high school students who are part of bric – bishops, rustenberg (and westerford) in community – did a 25 hour cyclathon at the waterfront. they got those spinning class bikes and had 6 or 7 of them going for 25 hours (taking shifts) in order to raise money for habitat for humanity. the money will go towards building houses in the mfuleni township. how awesome it that?!

the cyclathon started at 5 pm on the Friday night and went through to 6pm on Saturday. i didn’t know about it though. i just saw a tweet from someone i follow on twitter saying that Tim Smal (ex frontman of serving suggestion) would be playing an acoustic set at the waterfront ampitheatre on saturday morning so i decided to check it out. i missed Tim’s set but when i got there i found out that it was actually an all day thing as part of the cyclathon. they had different bands playing all day and then had ruffles throughout the day to raise funds. they ended up raising over R5000 just from R20 ruffle tickets…awesome!

anyway, i only caught a few bands since i got there late but i’m so glad i went. the bands i did see definitely made up for the sunburn.

first one i saw was shen winberg’s band. they were quite cool. and at some point they played this raggae medley. then one of the dudes from one of those waterfront marimbe performing groups came onstage and sang with them. was very cool. if you’re an early riser, they will be on the SABC 3 morning show expresso at 6:30 this wednesday (feb 9th) so check them out. really dug their sound.

next up was another cool band whose name i didn’t catch. they were only on stage for like 3 songs though which was a bummer. something went wrong with the guitarist’s acoustic guitar and no one else had one to lend him and since their songs are acoustic he couldn’t use an electric. but the songs that they did play were pretty cool. really dug the last one they played – was about like grace and stuff.

after that was la vi. they had a “duffy” kinda sound and look. not the duck, the “mercy” chick. like kinda 50′s rock kinda thing. they were really really good. the lead chick has a really nice voice, and the band is just an acoustic guitar and drums, so they are not so loud they take away from the voice. i really liked them. and they will be playing this weekend in stellies as part of “ultrafest” so will be checking them out then.

after la vi came a group of very good looking boys all suited up and lots of screaming from the girlies in the crowd. i thought that maybe they were students from one of the schools but it turned out they are university students – which made me feel a little less paedophilic for thinking they were cute . oh my gosh i loved them…them being perfect score. they were an a cappela group – think el divo. and they were so good. i loved when they did the lion king opening scene song, the brenda fassie song, and the waka waka song. i loved that they added local songs in the mix. loved them!

so yay for musical goodness. and yay for music for good. thank you so much to the bric learners for their good work. awesomeness!