Time: 7pm, entry R25, bring your own booze. Food and soft drinks are available for sale. Musicians who want to play at MiTH, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Doug Borain cell 072 340 7034 or Charles Webster cell 082 331 7271 (Bill Pocket is away on leave).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
7.30pm – BIANCA WOOD
A musician based in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2015 Bianca Wood released her debut album, TIME. Although she has been making music, writing songs and singing most of her life, TIME was her first public offering as a professional musician. In 2016, Bianca underwent some incredible “musical surgery” and worked closely with some of South Africa’s top producers, engineers, agents and musicians. The Bianca Wood team completed a “Studio Exploration Tour” where Bianca and her band recorded and filmed songs in studios across South Africa. Bianca Wood and her band have opened for the Parlotones, and she has sung with Kahn Morbee a number of times. She also recently released her single, 9 crimes, featuring Richard Stirton. The team is about to release song and video number 1 of the new batch – titled BLUE. This will be followed by two more: THE COMEDOWN and THESE ARE THE DAYS. The big dream: the team would like to do a summer tour of Europe in 2017.
Check out her Youtube channel for a taste of this talented up-and-coming South African artist: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_COEcTcu8vmd_A9LAhwSRg
8.45pm – GAVIN FERGUSON
This singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer combines all these skills to create a live show with electronic beats to get people dancing - picture Goldfish and Good-luck, but without a DJ. He also happens to play some covers. Gavin has three singles play-listed on East Coast Radio, Good-hope FM and Durban Youth Radio, and also featured nationwide on Playlists in Pick n Pay, Wimpy, Spur, Toys-R-Us and various other retail companies
Gavin has played at numerous corporate events, like the Dimension Data Pro Am Golf Tournament in George, Hosting South Africa's top celebrities in sport and business. He
has played at festivals like Splashy Fen, and has also opened for some of South Africa's top bands, like Khan from the Parlatones, Short Straw, LocknVille, Jeremy Loops, Mathew Mole, John Ellis from Tree 63, Majozi, December streets, Crash Car Burn.
Gavin’s Youtube channel is worth checking out at https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinwferguson
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!
Visit www.mith.co.za for more details and directions.
News supplied by MiTH.
MUSIC IN THE HILLS THIS WEEK 17/05/2017
Congratulations to the 21 St Anne’s girls who have been selected to play for various Inland Region Hockey Teams that will participate in upcoming provincial tournaments.
Artists and crafters have the opportunity to be a part of the line-up of the 25th Hilton Arts Festival this year.
Kitted out with gardening tools, seedlings and plenty of packets of seeds which had been generously given by the Grace College staff, a team of Grade 8 and 9 pupils headed to Emandleni Creche Vegetable Garden. There they found a very large vegetable garden that was being managed by a handful of elderly ladies.
Abbie Julius, a Grade 2 pupil at Laddsworth Primary School participated in the Pinetown Gymnastics competition on Saturday 6 May 2017.
The St Anne’s hockey girls are enjoying superb form this season with all teams currently unbeaten in the local league. The 1st Team travelled to Gauteng in the April holidays where they gave an outstanding performance at the St Mary’s Waverley Tournament, up against 32 top schools from around Southern Africa. St Anne’s made it through to the finals, their highest achievement at the tournament to date, where they were beaten 3-1 by forth-time reigning champions, Meisieskool Oranje . Daniella Rhodes was named one of the Strikers of the tournament and Brady Wiseman as a Defender of the tournament. They went on to participate in the Saints Festival and won all of their matches. Also in the school holidays, both the U14A and U16A Teams won their age group categories at the tournament they played in Bloemfontein. The St Anne’s Sports Department introduced a High Performance Programme this year which has been embraced by the girls and their hard work appears to be paying off on the hockey field.
Eight Grade 8 pupils from Grace College visited Tabitha Ministries School, Christian Life Academy, where they read to the pupils, played sport with the pupils and helped with deconstructing an old carport. This cleared a space for future development of the facilities.
The St Anne’s Old Girls’ Guild recently honoured one of their remarkable Old Girls by presenting Susan Abro (Class of 1981) with The Award of Excellence.
This week Grace College staff and pupils participated in the second SANBS (South African National Blood Service) Blood Drive of 2017. A total of 42 donations were made in this continual commitment to save lives.
Did you know that half the people in the world do not own a single pair of shoes. This includes 300 million children. They are forced to walk around barefoot, often in unsafe—even life-threatening—situations. Many of these are children.
Hilton Arts Festival
Vula Vala is a local family run business based in Kwa-zulu Natal midlands, we manufacture and custom design wooden gates and barn doors for inside and outside entry ways.
On Friday, 5 May Laddsworth Primary School hosted 24 schools at its Annual Inter-Schools Cross Country Meeting.
This week during assembly our Head Boy, Carl Brann, was awarded an Honours Blazer. This recognition was bestowed for achieving tri-colour status; Carl has earned full colours in drama, debating and academics.
Jessica Bompas, a Grade 10 pupil at St Anne’s Diocesan College, is currently ranked 20th in the world for the 200m distance, in the U18 age group category. Jessica competed during the April school holidays and won the 200m U17 race and set the fastest time for the season in KZN out of all athletes including seniors. She ran 24.02, narrowly missing the SA record of 24.00 seconds. She also came 3rd in the 100m U17 race. In Cape Town she ran in the U18 division and was beaten by 2 older girls to come 3rd in the 200m and 3rd again in the 100m. She was visited at school by Busi Thwala (Department of Sports and Recreation) and Nobuhle Moyana (Department of Education) who presented her with a trophy and certificate from SASA (South African Schools Athletics) in recognition of her achievements. Jessica has been considered for the National Team to represent South Africa at the African Youth Games and World Youth Games which will be held in Bata and Kenya during June 2017. We wish her luck with the selection.
Grace College recently hosted their annual Night Relay. We invite teams of four to complete a 2,5km lap around the school grounds and through the plantations.
Sail in style from Cape Town to Sydney with Cunard, visiting vibrant and historical ports along the way.