MUSIC

DIDGERIDOO MUSIC

Didgeridoo

is concert and demonstration by versatile musician Alan Dargin, an Australian aboriginal didgeridoo player who is performing and working with South African musicians courtesy of the Australian High Commissioner.

He regularly appears at cultural, folk and jazz venues around the world and has been involved in a number of CD pro-ductions. He is also well-known for his cameo role as musician and drag artist in the Australian film Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Alan is particularly interested in establishing a unique musical rapport between the didgeridoo and other forms of world music such as African rhythms, American jazz and blues and the music of ancient Ireland.

He will give several concerts in Durban. Tickets for each are R10 at the door.

The first concert will take place at Howard College Theatre on March 11 at 19h30. Further details from Dr Angela Impey on 260-1348.

Funky's at the BAT Centre will host the second concert on March 12 at 20h00.

WORKSHOP

In association with the Playhouse Company, Alan will conduct a free workshop on March 9 from 13h00 to 17h00 in A1 in the Playhouse Company administration offices in Acutt Street.

Participants are requested to bring along a piece of plastic piping (140-150 cms long and 4 cms in diameter) and a lump of bee's wax to form a mouthpiece. Space is limited to the first 30 participants at the door and no reservations will be made.

For details on Alan Dargin's visit contact Nicky du Plessis on 082 901 0735.

FRIENDS CONCERT

University of Durban-Westville music students under the direction of James Conrad will feature in a concert being presented by the Durban Friends of Music on March 18.

Drawing on his wide experience as both performer and director - he headed the Napac opera department until the reorganisation of the arts council - Conrad has devised a programme of operatic arias.

As usual, the concert will be at the Durban Jewish Club in Old Fort Road starting at 19h45.

LUTHER VAN DROSS

Pop star Luther van Dross appears at Kings Park Stadium on March 25.

Queen at the Opera

runs in the Playhouse Opera Theatre until May 11.

UND CONCERTS

The March programme of free Monday lunch-hour concerts presented by the music department of the University of Natal in the Howard College Theatre at 12h15 is as follows:

Mar 3: YOGAMBAL AND SHREE SINGARAM present South Indian classi-cal dance and song. They will be accom-panied by live instrumentalists.

Mar 10: SODI BRAIDE, young inter-national award-winning Nigerian pianist currently studying in Paris, plays a recital of 19th and early 20th century music. After the concert at 14h00, Sodi will give a master class for music department students. (Public welcome)

Mar 17: THE MATSHEKETSHE DANCERS perform in the Pieter Scholtz Open Air Theatre on the university campus. This group of primary school children led by Chief Mlaba will present a programme of Zulu dance on themes of violence and peace on the trains, in the townships and in the rural areas.

Mar 24: EZRA NGUCKANA, a visiting jazz saxophonist and lecturer from Cape Town, performs with Darius Brubeck, Lulu Gontsana and Bongani Sokela.

The department will then be on vacation and the next concert will take place on April 7. Those wishing to be on the music department mailing list should send addresses to the concert organiser, department of music, University of Natal, Durban, 4041 or phone 260-3353.