The City of Cape Town’s Arts and Culture Department will be hosting a free concert at Wynberg Park on Reconciliation Day, Wednesday 16 December 2009.

The Concert in the Park is an annual event to encourage and celebrate reconciliation and national unity through music. Families from different cultural backgrounds are encouraged to bring along a picnic or use the park’s braai facilities and enjoy an afternoon of entertainment for all. The event will begin at 12:00 and end at 18:00, when the park closes.

The music lineup will feature well known Cape Town bands and individuals, and various community artists such as Chad Saaiman, Hot Water, Tucan Tucan and The Rudimentals.

The programme will kick off on Monday 14 December 2009 with an information session to members of the public who are interested in the music industry. Music technology, business management and pitfalls in the art industry, publishing and distributing, copyright laws, royalties, song-writing skills, registering of song and market accessibility will be discussed. The information session will be held at the Joseph Stone Auditorium in Athlone and as spaces are limited, bookings need to be made via Kani Naidoo on 082 9263647.

“The concert is our way of showing that we encourage local talent and the legitimate buying of authentic South African music,” says Lesley Truter, Project Developer, Arts and Culture.

“We’re also trying encourage communities to reclaim their public parks with positive initiatives like these to discourage the use of public spaces for anti-social types of behaviour. We urge Captonians to support us in this endeavour.”

The City’s Come and Play Department will entertain children with jumping castles, games and face painting. Parking will be on a first come, first service basis, and will be supervised by security personnel.

Martin Pollack

Cape Town based band, Tucan Tucan are offering you their WHOLE 1st album: “Xiluva” for free download.

“Since we are busy writing for our forthcoming album we want to give you the opportunity to have, embrace, sing along and finally fall in love with our previous albums before you can decide to buy our 3rd one!”

The free download will be available from 1st MARCH to 1st APRIL at this address: http://www.tucan-tucan.com/music.html.

Tucan Tucan are the recent winners of the Golden Horn – SAFTA Awards for best music composition for film.

Muriel Marco together with Ghalik Jacobs scooped the Golden Horn Award for best composition for the film Confessions of a Gambler screened in South Africa, North America, Dubai and Spain. The Tucan Tucan tracks “Slow Jam” and “Conga Loca” were featured in this film.

And Tucan Tucan is set to feature on the German movie Glamour and Gloria this March.

Upcoming Gigs:

• Cape Town festival: Saturday 21st March @ Company Gardens.
• Constantia Waldorf Fair: Saturday 28th March. Tucan Tucan will grace the stage @ 2 pm at the Constantia Waldorf School, Spaanschemat River Road. For more information phone 021 794 2103.

Tucan Tucan performing at the J&B Met, dressed by Slate Boutique

We would like to wish you and your loved ones a HAPPY FESTIVE SEASON! May 2009 bring you joy, good health and prosperity.

If you are in Cape Town please come and join Tucan Tucan at the beautiful picnic setting at Oude Libertas Amphitheatre in Stellenbosch. The band will be performing this coming Sunday 28th December at 6:30 pm for the Oude Libertas Summer Sunset concert series.

Tucan Tucan were a finalist in the International Songwriting competition 2008 with their song “ESA MORENA”.

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