Bonteheuwel Jazz Day boasts top line-up
THE Jazz Yard Academy with Community Chest will have Jazz Day in Bonteheuwel tomorrow.
The event is part of showcasing the local talent of young people and their entrepreneurial development to a delegation from Rutgers University in the US.
The line-up artists for the Saturday morning one-day Jazz will be the likes of the Jazz Yard Academy members, the Delft Big Band, Capetonian trumpeter, Darren English, and Rashid Lombard, founder of the Cape Town International Jazz festival.
Kyle Farmbry, dean of the Graduate School in Rutgers University, said: “We want to develop the disadvantaged and marginalised individuals young people to realise their full potential. We have scholarship that can help the young Cape town to study further being Jazz music or entrepreneurial development and developmental studies, which will help them to excel and plough back to the South African economy.”
“We are very pleased and excited to work with Community Chest on development and creation opportunity for the youth. The relationship that we have we hope will over time build young successful people in both countries.”
Rutgers University focuses on South African non-profit organisations that bring about change to the youth. Since the partnership in 2014 with Community Chest, 19 young people have seen their life change for the better in South Africa.
Contact Joey Fourie on 084 880 7012 for more information.