MUSIC
SHOWS AT FUNKY'S
It's all happening at Funky's at the BAT Centre with entertainment seven nights a week from 21h00.
Local band King Tin plays on Monday nights and on Tuesdays, a number of local jazz outfits take to the stage.
Wednesdays are acoustic music nights.
Father and daughter duo, Steve and Tara Fataar, will be joined by Craig Nash, John Ellis, John Randall and Mike
Smith from July 4 to 6.
The Cape Town rock band, Sunshines, performs from July 11 to 13 and Tim Parr plays with his band Musik Ye
Afrika from July 18 to 20.
COMEDY
Every Sunday is Comedy Night at Funky's, featuring the cream of Durban's comedy talent with the appearance of
guest artists.
MUSIC APPRECIATION
Brenda Miller, Israel's top music lec-turer, has returned for the third time by public demand to give a series of
lectures, Music as an Exultant Cele-bration of Life, for the Friends of Music Society this month.
Being given at the Durban Jewish Club from July 2 to 8 (excluding July 5), the lectures are designed to show such
composers as Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Shostakovich as "finding their way from darkness into light and
brightening the world with their vision."
Brenda Miller has lectured to music lovers all over Israel. She recently organised a tour to Russia highlighting music,
art and literature.
Book at Computicket.
THE HARMONY OF HENRY'S EIGHT
The Henry's Eight singers, a group of graduate choral scholars of Cambridge University will appear in Durban at
St Paul's Church on July 17 and at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on July 18. They will then move to Pietermaritzburg to perform
at the Anglican Cathedral on July 19. All concerts at 19h30
The group will appear at the Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahams-town prior to their KZN tour.
Henry's Eight as a group go back to 1992 when eight Trinity College choral scholars got together to present pro-
grammes of madrigals and close har-mony arrangements. When the majority of singers graduated from Cambridge,the group was
renamed Henry's Eight representing both the number in the ensemble and the founder of Trinity College, Henry VIII.
The group comprises three basses, three tenors and two counter tenors drawn from Trinity, St John's and Gonville
and Gaius Colleges.
The group has already toured America and Germany and, apart from its visit to South Africa, will be touring South
America and Corsica later this year.
Despite its comparatively short existence the group has made three CD's.
Tickets at R25 from Computicket for the Durban concerts and the Cathedral office for the Pietermaritzburg
performance.
BASTILLE DAY
The Bastille was a prison in Paris until it was captured on July 14, 1789, at the outset of the French Revolution.
Since then, this date has become France's national day, Bastille Day. It will be celebrated in Durban on July 13, at the Alliance
Francaise headquarters at 22 Sutton Crescent in Morningside with a Diner Gastronomique and dancing from 20h00.
For reservations contact Denise at the Alliance on 23-9582.
VANGUARD
Vanguard, an a cappella music group from the United States will give a performance at the Hilton College Theatre
on July 12 at 19h30.
Vanguard blends hits from the 1940s to the 1990s with drama and humour. The concert is hosted by the Howick
Baptist Church and tickets are available from Browser's at the Hilton Quarry, the White House Pharmacy in Howick and the Bible
Centre in Pietermaritzburg.