(Above: Post Box Blues Band)
Arguably the KZN Midlands’ best-loved music venue, Music in The Hills (MiTH) is an opportunity for beginners, professionals, and passionate music fans to share the joy of music at The Knoll Historic Guest Farm in Hilton.
The next musical evening will take place on January 26, 2022. It will feature the Post Box Blues Band, Gerry Van Rensburg and Grace Botha.
(at 21h00)
The Post Box Blues band began as a jam—an
unrehearsed collaboration of musicians with a love for blues music—and
eventually got refined, structured, and streamlined into Kyle
Baker on guitar and vocal, Daniel Rossouw on bass, and Chris Melling on drums.
There is a rawness and vulnerability in a trio, with no wall of sounds to hide
behind, just guitar, bass, and drums to carry the message. The Post Box Blues band
like it this way, and try to keep it raw, real, and loud, the way blues should
be played! These three musicians have been playing together in different
projects and iterations for close to 15 years, finally culminating in this
bluesy trio playing both blues standards and putting their unique blues twist
on more modern music.
(at 20h00)
Gerry picked up the guitar for the first
time in 1982 with the express purpose of performing to drunk people in bars, a
lofty goal which he achieved as a student in 1984, performing at the Saint
James Hotel in Point Road, Durban, with three of his friends. It is now an
accepted fact that, at the time, nobody in Durban was playing to audiences as
drunk as his were. He continued to perform with his bad band friends for his
entire student career. By 1989 midi backing tracks became popular and he spent
the entire year writing backing tracks and performing them to drunk people at
the Cecil hotel in Bloemfontein where he became a big name, but due to the rules
of decency on this page we cannot disclose what that name was. He arrived in
Pietermaritzburg in 1990 where he would teach technical drawing at Alexandra High
School and Maritzburg College. While Gerry is mostly remembered for the many
years he performed at DaVinci's restaurant in the ‘90s, over the past 30 years
he has performed at restaurants, pubs, weddings, birthdays, and any other venue
with a cash bar.
Grace Botha
Grace Botha is a singer, songwriter and
pianist with a passion for amalgamating her love for jazz, pop and folk. She
majored in Jazz and Popular Voice at Howard College from 2011-2013 and was a
soloist for the close-harmony group the UKZN Voices. In addition to winning the
Amsterdam Acoustic Artist challenge in 2012, she was also runner-up in the
Gateway to Fame competition 2013 and opened for the SAIFTA awards in a collab
at the ICC Durban. She has performed with several top artists including
Beatroute, Sebastian Goldswain, and Majozi, and opened for Idols winner,
Jason Hartman. Grace Botha is an accomplished session artist and has delighted
audiences at many different venues in KZN with her witty charm and her
incredible voice.
The evening takes place from 19h00 at The
Knoll Historic Guest Farm, Knoll Drive, Hilton. Doors open at 18h00 and the
music will kick off at 19h00. Entrance is R50 at the door. Bring your own
booze. Food and soft drinks are available for sale.
ALL COVID-19 PROTOCOLS OBSERVED
For more information contact 082 331 7271. Visit www.mith.co.za for more details and directions. Musicians can contact mithbookings@gmail.com for slots.
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 Crossways Pub) 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.
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