Darling Music Experience Line-Up:

1st Weekend

FRIDAY, 3 February
19h30 | VG Kerk, Somerset Street, Darling
- DME Festival Choir sings excerpts from Magnificat and Cantata 147
- Maudee Montierre, Soprano, winner of the Samro Overseas Scholarship 2011, and Lisa Engelbrecht, Piano, perform excerpts of the Anna Magadalena song book, Cantata BWV 51 etc.
- The Darling Music for All Initiative Progress Report
Admission: free (donations welcome)

SATURDAY, 4 February
11h00 | Groote Post, off R 27 or Mamre Rd
- The Groote Post Matinee “Baroque Music for Modern Players” with Magda de Vries, Marimba, and Tyrone Appollis, Penny Whistle followed by lunch at Hilda’s Kitchen.
Admission: R250 (includes lunch)

16h00 | The Buttery (Darling Museum), Darling, Hill Street
- Marim Bach: Magda de Vries, Marimba.
Admission: R100

19h30 | Presbyterian Church, Darling, Pastorie Street
- Cello Concerto: Marian Lewin, the doyenne of cellists in South Africa, and Darling’s favourite pianist Tertia Visser play Bach, Bloch, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Saint Saens and more.
Admission: R100

SUNDAY, 5 February
12h30 | !Khwa ttu, off R27
- The Darling Cellars Classic Lunch in cooperation with The Square Restaurant / Vineyard Hotel, Newlands.
- Hans Huyssen, Cello, plays Bach’s Cello Suites No 1 and 2.
Admission: R100 plus cost for set menu

17h00 | Maritz Studio Gallery, Darling, 5 Nemesia Street
- “Baroque meets African Classical Music” Derek Gripper, Guitar, plays Bach and Toumani Diabete.
Admission: R100

19h30 | Presbyterian Church
“Piano- und Lautenkunst” from Germany with Lena Seidl, piano, and Uwe Grosser, lute.
Admission: R50

2nd Weekend

FRIDAY, 10 February
19h30 | Presbyterian Church
- The Noordhoek Baroque Ensemble
“The Sound of the Eighteenth Century” Bach and Handel on original instruments.
Admission: R50

SATURDAY, 11 February
12h00 | Groote Post, off R 27 or Mamre rd
- Bach and Pentz: “The old men sparkle”
A very personal introduction to Champagne making with winemaker, Lukas Wentzel, followed by lunch at Hilda’s Kitchen.
- The ever so popular James Grace plays works by Bach, Albeniz, Tarrega, Pujol and Barrios.
Admission: R250 (includes lunch)

15h00 | !Khwa ttu Kid’s Corner:
“Use your Ears as Eyes” Guitar Workshop with Stiga Sola Molefi (tbc).
Admission: free

16h00 | NG Kerk , Darling, Pastorie Str
- Organ Recital with Eben Wagenstroom, Winner of the Artscape National Youth Music Competition 2011, including Prelude and Fugue in C major and A major, BWV 545 and 536.
- “Inventions and Improvisations” Inspired by Bach with the Austrian Trombone Duo Christian Radovan and Alois Eberl
Admission: R50

19h30 | Presbyterian Church, Darling, Pastorie Street
- “J.S. Bach and Friends on Vacation in Darling”
with the world’s leading Recorder virtuoso Maurice Steger and James Grace, Guitar
performing works by Bach, Corelli, Telemann and others.
Admission: R 100

SUNDAY, 12 February
09h00 | Presbyterian Church
- Inter-denominational Church Service with the DME Festival Choir.
Admission: free

12h00 | Strandkombuis , Yzerfontein, 16 Mile Beach
- The Tukulu Jazz Lunch.
- “J.S. Bach meets Duke Ellington and friends” with The Solid Brass Quintet.
Admission: R 280 includes lunch and Tukulu wines.

16h00 | The Planet Art Creative Center
- Kid’s Corner: “Recorder Jamboree” with Maurice Steger.
- a workshop with the world’s leading recorder player and learners of the “Darling Music for All” education initiative.
Admission: free

SEASON TICKETS are available on request: for 1 weekend / for 2 weekends.