Carpe Musicam! Passion to Pentecost

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS - The Garden Route’s community-based music performance organisation, Carpe Musicam!, has gained a reputation since their inception in 2015 for making interesting and enjoyable choral and instrumental music accessible to the average music-lover.

This year’s Easter presentation, Passion to Pentecost is no exception to this style of live music.

Using the large choir and 9-piece Boutique Band, the lively, deep and ultimately festive retrospective tells the Easter story through words and music in a way that should appeal to everyone.

There are four items by contemporary British- born composer, Paul Barker, who approaches serious subject matter in a pop-rock style which often spills over into a Gospel-like euphoria.

In his “Hosanna!”, “Hallelujah!”, “Senza Paura (Unfearingly)” and the four movement “MASSive” he creates a joyful, yet often tender, mood against which the audience can ponder the events of the first Easter.

The version of “Were You There?” has been described as the “most moving performance” ever heard by a non-choir rehearsal attendee.

There are also glorious hymn arrangements which celebrate the triumph over Darkness, and the setting of “O, Sacred Head, Once Wounded” against a Bach Siciliano is absolutely “stunningly beautiful.”

There will be three performances of this stirring concert in May as follows:

Sunday 8 May, 15:30 at NGK, Sedgefield. Tickets Adults R120 - Under-18’s R60–limit of 90 tickets.
Friday 13 May, 19:00 at Outeniqua Primary, George. Tickets R120 - Under-18’s R60
Sunday 15 May, 15:30 at Laminin Agora, Hartenbos. Tickets R150 - Under-18’s R75

Refreshments by @Simon’s will be available at the Outeniqua Primary performance from 18:00 and a cash bar and refreshments will be available at Laminin Agora before the show.

Be sure to catch this wonderful entertainment, and support our local musicians and singers.

More info and tickets available at www.carpemusicam.co.za