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Sunday, September 22, 2013

COUNTRY ROADS



(Marion Loudon, Anita Ruscoe, Jill Murraybrown & Calli Thomson)

It’s time to don your cowboy hats, boots and spurs, denim jeans, check shirts and tassels! Practice your howdy’s and yee ha’s and take a trip with us down Country Roads.

So says Heritage Theatre in Kloof publicising their new show featuring everyone’s favourite country artists. Some from way back such as John Denver, Patsy Cline, Kenny Rogers and the voluptuous songbird Dolly Parton and then to 90's stars Billy Ray Cyrus, Shania Twain and more recent Dixie Chicks, Lady Antebellum, Kid Rock, Mumford & Sons and many more.

Expect songs like Grandma’s Feather Bed, Achy Breaky Heart, Cotton Eye Joe, Islands in The Stream and The Devil Went Down to Georgia as well as modern country songs like All Summer Long, Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under, Rock This Country, What The Cowgirls Do and I Will Wait.

The show features Lyle Buxton and Marion Loudon, with Musical Director Calli Thomson on keyboards, Andy Turrell on pedal steel and electric guitar, Nux Schwartz on guitar, Anita Ruscoe on violin, Jill Murraybrown on bass and Francois Hardy on drums.

Tickets R195 pp Wednesday to Saturdays (R165 pp Tuesday evenings and Sunday lunch time) cover the show and a two-course meal. There is also a “show only” option for R120. Desserts are an optional extra.

Country Roads runs at The Heritage Theatre in Hillcrest until October 13. Bookings can be made on 031 765 4197 or online at www.heritagetheatre.co.za