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SPECIAL EVENTS
Cape Town Carnival 2010
Venue: Throughout Cape Town. Tel: 021 510
4004.
Time: -
Price: -
Performances: 18 - 29 Mar 2010
Genre: Festival
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The Cape Town Carnival, set to bring together the city’s
diverse communities in an exciting and creative annual event, is scheduled
for 18 –20 March, with the grand parade taking place in Cape Town’s CBD on
the 20th.
The Carnival will celebrate the Cape’s heritage and
creativity, contributing to social cohesion and economic growth over time.
With a mass of over 2000 cross-genre, cross-cultural performers partaking
in the event, six original Carnival songs that will get the people dancing
and a spectacular float and elaborate costumes as draw cards, there should
be something to suit just about anyone’s taste.
The Carnival Parade is a free-access event, encouraging all
of Cape Town to share in the fun and excitement. In addition to the
festivities of the main parade, spectators can also look forward to
celebrations after the event. A range of other fringe events can also be
expected.
Six original Carnival songs
The Cape Town Carnival is proud to announce the launch
of its 2010 theme song, “Rhythm, Roots & Boots”. This brand new song,
together with 5 tracks based on the various chapters telling the story of
Cape Town, were created by a team of multi-cultural and multi-lingual
singers and songwriters, led by Gabi Le Roux and Clive Ridgway.
Monique Hellenberg, Lu Chase, Blaq Pearl
and Given Phike were among the singers who brought to life the
soon-to-be-favourite “The Sea”, “Postcards from Cape Town”, “The Streets
of Cape Town”, “Puzzle Pieces” and “Children of The Winds of Change”.
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Established, respected artists
collaborated with young, up-and-coming talent in an unprecedented creative
process based on volunteerism. The songs, which are an attempt to capture
the essence of the Mother City and its creative spirit, will be used
together with the visual elements of the Carnival to illustrate our goal
of social cohesion as well as to achieve a platform to expose Cape Town’s
creative talent, in all its forms.
Special Range of Carnival Wine from
Perdeberg
To join in the festive spirit, Perdeberg Winery is releasing a special
edition charity wine range for the Cape Town Carnival. This wine range
will consist of a Chenin Blanc/Sauvignon Blanc, a Shiraz/Pinotage/Viogner
and a Sparkling Rosé.
Neil Pendock, judged most trusted wine
palate in 2007 by South African wine consumers, was kind enough to give of
his time and considerable experience of the SA wine industry, to help
create the Perdeberg/Cape Town Carnival Wines - and even pen tasting
notes, while at it!
Perdeberg Winery has a long tradition of
excellence in winemaking. They prefer to set trends rather than follow
them and never compromise the exceptional quality of their wines, no
matter what the market – or Mother Nature – has to offer.
With this special range of charity wines,
Perdeberg has decided to give back a little more. For every bottle
purchased, R5 will be donated directly to charity. So, by celebrating
together at the Cape Town Carnival, Perdeberg will also be giving
something back to the communities in need.
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