Celebrate Youth Day with DIAMONDS TO DUST Matinee & World Cup Game, 6/26

Celebrate Youth Day on June 16 at Barnyard Cresta with a special matinee of DIAMONDS AND DUST at 1:00pm.

After phenomenally popular sold-out runs at The Barnyard Theatres over the years, DIAMONDS AND DUST (Also known as UNDER AFRICA SKIES) will be returning to The Barnyard stages. This is the perfect nation-building show to celebrate the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

This feel-good production tugs mercilessly at the heartstrings and features instantly recognizable songs that are now an intrinsic part of our lives. If you got goose bumps when South Africa won the 2007 Rugby World Cup or got through to the semi-finals of the Confederation Cup, then this show will have you dancing on the tables and partying in true South African style!

While it is true to the roots of local music, it is a cosmopolitan rather than an ethnic show. Diamonds & Dust starts off in the swinging 40s and 50s with the music of the pennywhistle, also known as Kwela. It progresses onto the period of Kwela Jazz, which was played on the saxophone rather than the pennywhistle, and then pays tribute to Miriam Makeba with The Click Song and Pata Pata.

Other showstoppers include a Shosholoza/ Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika /Weeping medley presented in a beautiful accapella arrangement, and a powerful rendition of The Warrior and Mama Tembu's Wedding from the famous local musical Ipi Ntombi.

The second half moves into more recent years where numbers like Paradise Road, African Dream, Impi, Diamonds On The Soles of Her Shoes, Jabulani and Great Heart are sure to raise the roof.

DIAMONDS AND DUST features a 12-member cast comprising six dynamic vocalists who get strong musical back-up from a six-piece band. Such was the success of Diamonds & Dust that it has toured internationally in recent years. After a very successful 3-month run in Holland, Denmark & Belgium the show also toured Turkey, Thailand, The Arab Emirate States and Zimbabwe.

Come and share the local vibe as we warm up for the World Cup on our door! Enjoy music under African skies...DIAMONDS TO DUST will run thru July 11.

There will also be a screening of the World Cup Soccer game of Africa vs. Uruguay at 8:30pm.

For more information, visit online www.barnyardtheatres.co.za.

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