The next Mondays at Six @ St Clements programme will be Deep, Dark and enduring with The Survivors and will take place on October 3, 2022.
Pieter Scholtz and friends invite patrons to an evening devised in response to many “encore” requests after previous Dylan and Cohen evenings by this popular trio at St Clements.
The Survivors - namely Charlie Berea, Theresa Berea and The Axman - will dig deeper into the words, the music, the stories, the songs, the myth and magic of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.
The three seasoned musicians / artists / entertainers, who have been making music together for 46 years, will share readings, observations, conversations (the literary part of the evening) and at least five Cohen songs from his early career to his “career revival” work; and Dylan, where you can expect newer songs you possibly won’t know.
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman), now 81 years old, is regarded by many as one of the greatest songwriters of all time. In 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. In 2008, the Pulitzer Prize board awarded him a special citation for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power”. He has received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016). Many are of the opinion that this Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist, whose work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships, should have got that Nobel Prize in Literature.
Cohen's writing process, as he told an interviewer in 1998, was "like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.” He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. He died at his home in California at the age of 82.
The Survivors. The stage names used above are a flimsy disguise for Rick Andrew, Alan Judd and Gill Andrew. They also perform under the umbrella of MUD – Movement Undoing Damage.
Outdoors (dress accordingly). Only indoors in the case of foul weather.
Table bookings are essential on 031 202 2511. There is no cover charge but there is a donations box to support presenters (suggested minimum of R50 per person).
If you wish to dine after the presentation, place your order before 18h00.
Bookings limited to diners in support of St Clements restaurant and staff. (They stay open specially for these events.) Be there in time to order before the performance, scheduled to start at 18h00 sharp.
St Clements is situated at 191 Musgrave Road. Mondays @ Six run between 18h00 and 19h00.
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