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MUSIC
Artscape Youth Jazz Festival
Venue: Artscape, DF Malan St, Cape Town. Tel: (021) 421 7695.
Time: 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Price: R50
Performances: 6 Jun 2009
Genre: Jazz
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Since it’s
inception in 2003 Artscape’s Youth Jazz programme has developed into a
valuable and successful project for young emerging jazz musicians and
their bands. After auditions they receive master classes with acclaimed
jazz icons from the Western Cape.
On Saturday 6
June three bands selected for the programme - Public Attention (Vredenburg),Touch
(Bergvliet) and Ological Studies (Mowbray) will showcase their work at the
Youth Jazz Festival which also features their mentors - Melanie Scholtz,
Keith Tabisher, Andrew Lilley and Kevin Gibson.
This annual event
is sold out every year because of the extraordinary talent and high
standard of performance, so best to book your tickets in advance.
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Marlene Le Roux, Director of Artscape Audience Development
and Education, mentions that; ‘Artscape initiated this project in
recognition of the enormous amount of raw talent there is nationally,
particularly in Cape Town where there is a Jazz
tradition. Because most of the musicians did not have the opportunity of
music as a subject at school they were unable to read music. The project
consequently started out as a development programme working with
individual jazz musicians.
Realising that mentorship with the
individuals needed a different platform as the youngsters returned to
their bands as empowered musicians, but the band did not grow with them.
It was now important to look at band development and so we contracted well
known professional figures in the Jazz world that were also be able to
teach. The programme today prepares our emerging professionals for the
challenging arts arena they hope to enter and ensures respect for their
role models who paved the way for them.
Artscape believes that the effective
engagement with youth and their participation in society is crucial to
consolidating democracy’.
Melanie Scholtz, Head Mentor and Artistic Director says;
‘The main aim is to highlight the development and growth of all the bands
and mentors involved. The repertoire choice is to teach the tradition of
jazz and to inform these young musicians of the roots of where most modern
pop music comes from and designing it so that they open up their ears and
hearts to the jazz tradition’. Project Manager is Tarnia van Zitters from
Artscape.
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