MUSIC IN THE HILLS THIS WEEK
Time: 7pm, R25 entry, food and soft drinks available, BYOB, visit www.mith.co.za for more details and directions.
DIRECTIONS TO MiTH:
Take the N3 to Hilton, take the Hilton turnoff and go South into the Village (away from Hilton College). Travel 5,2km along Hilton Avenue (past two sets of traffic lights and Old Main Brewery) and keep going straight as Hilton Avenue turns into Dennis Shepstone Drive. At the 5,2km mark, Knoll Drive will be on your right – the entrance to MiTH is the *second* entrance on your left into The Knoll Historic Guest Farm. (Dennis Shepstone Drive is currently under heavy construction – so please be very cautious.)
7pm - Open Mic
Toni Hemming is a learner from Grace College, who makes her first appearance at MiTH. She plays piano and has a lilting yet forceful vocal quality that will capture you. We’re very glad Toni has chosen to make an appearance at Hilton’s favourite music club.
7:30pm - Nosi Zulu
Our newlywed TV Idols star, who was also one of two recipients of MiTH sponsorship last year, Nosi Zulu is a music student at UKZN with an incredible voice and buckets and buckets of talent on the keys as well. We are very excited to have her back at MiTH this coming week. Seriously not to be missed.
8pm - St John & Tanya
Some of our favourite musicians here in the Midlands of KZN. Tanya leaves her heart on the stage - the utter abandon with which she delivers jazz standards, jazz not-so-standards and soulful ballad covers has left MiTH members tearful on more than one occasion. She lives and breathes every lyric. St John, in his unique, quiet way, provides a perfect foil for Tanya with smooth and evocative keyboard work and a raspy vocal that is as surprising as it is visceral. Their talent is undoubted and self-evident. Their impassioned performances, however, are clearly a function of deep pools of emotion.
9pm - Jack Mantis Band
Led by Jack, the musician, graffiti artist, adventurer and soul-searcher, the Jack Mantis Band has been at MiTH several times - following extensive tours across the US and Europe last year, and having travelled SA in the last few months, this gifted poet-songwriter and his band bring their unique style of Gypsy Rock to the MiTH stage. They will be joined by MiTH’s own Nishalin Pillay! His stage personality is legend. Don't miss out on the opportunity to see one of South Africa's top talents - right here in Hilton. Here's a taste for you, one from German television, and the other a music video of his track, "Lovely Honestly":
ABOUT MiTH:
MiTH is a semi-open mic music club. An opportunity for musicians to share the joy of their music with a friendly audience which includes fellow musicians – who have all “been there” too. (Non-musicians welcome too!) Whether you’re a newbie looking for your first opportunity to perform publicly, or a more experienced / mature musician simply looking for people who are as passionate about music as you are – come along and join us!
News supplied by MiTH.
St Anne’s Diocesan College pupils Ashley Markham and Rebecca Erskine have been selected to go to Zambia and Zimbabwe as part of the South African Pony Club later this year. Due to the difficulties relating to transporting horses out of South Africa, the girls will compete on borrowed horses. The selection process takes this in to account; candidates are evaluated on how versatile and adaptable they are as they will be competing on unknown horses. During the trials in February, the girls were required to ride several horses that they had never ridden before, over a course of jumps and doing dressage. Their riding skills and knowledge of theory was assessed by experts and they were interviewed and rated on their ability to be good ambassadors for South Africa. The successful candidates from the KZN selections were put through to a national panel who eventually selected four riders for each team. Ashley was chosen to represent SA on the Zambia team which competes in April 2017 and Rebecca was chosen to represent SA on the Zimbabwe team which competes in July 2017.
Grace College Grade 8 pupils, Cole Baker and Sebastian Homan, proved to be tough opponents in the Pietermaritzburg Schools’ C League Chess Tournament recently. Cole achieved a first place and Sebastian secured a third position. Cole went on to participate in the Pietermaritzburg Schools’ Open Chess Tournament and achieved an impressive second place.
Form 4 St Anne’s Diocesan College pupil, Alice Perrow, and her father, Mark, paddled the Dusi Canoe Marathon recently, finishing in 199th position overall, 9th mixed doubles and 2nd father and daughter team.
01 MARCH 2017
Every year around this time, cubs and scouts around the world take the opportunity to remember Lord Baden-Powell for his forward thinking of how to teach children life skills and in ways of, not only improving themselves to be good and upright citizens of this world, but learning ways to improve the world.
As I type this our landline and internet are both down, and we are not sure when Telkom will be repairing it, so please bear with us if you are trying to get hold of us.
Time: 7pm, R25 entry, food and soft drinks available, BYOB, visit www.mith.co.za for more details and directions.
Grace College
Giving Teens the opportunity to find out what they are capable of, to develop skills in their interest areas, or find new interests through participating in up to four different skills based camps per holiday per year.
Grace College’s Life Orientation Teacher, Kathryn Fannin, organised another successful Careers Evening at the school during which the Grade 11 pupils were able to engage with representatives from top Tertiary Establishments to discuss possible career paths.
On 1 March 2017 Laddsworth Primary School turned 114 years old.
St Anne’s Diocesan College recently hosted the Independent Schools’ Tennis Tournament in Hilton.
Pravin Gordhan presented the Budget Speech 2017, under challenging economic conditions both globally and locally. Some significant changes were implemented this year affecting both individuals and companies. Can an economy continue to survive on a less than 1% growth rate?
On Monday 20 February 2017, Mr Robin McIntosh from the Hereford Group, presented Savanna-Belle Fyvie, a Grade Five pupil at Laddsworth Primary School, with a cheque for R20 000, for winning the National Liberty Life Drawing Competition.
Congratulations to Nick Tillim, James Wood and Christian Deare on their selection into the KZN U18A Water Polo Team. They will be participating in the Currie Cup National Tournament in Stellenbosch next month.
Grace College’s Grade 11 pupils, Hannah Watkinson and Ashley King, have been chosen to go on a Rotary Exchange at the end of this year. We congratulate them on this wonderful achievement and wish them well as they prepare to host their respective exchange students before they themselves embark on the adventure of a lifetime.