Annual festival promises epic acts, wine show, DJs
The SSF2017 has all the ingredients for a good local wine festival
The Shack Summer Festival is an annual event since 2014. It has a history of delivering quality entertainment, in a classy and glamorous setting to a very discerning audience.
The best of South African and international artists showcased their talent over the three festivals to date.
Shack Summer Festival 2017 is going to set the bar higher to a quality audience in a compact and glamour-filled setting with beach sand, white furniture, covered by a Bedouin tent – in a summer ambiance of music, wine, food and fun!
Shack Summer Festival 2017 (SSF2017) is inclusive of a DJ Festival, Street Food Festival, Wine Festival, LIVE Music Festival, Incorporating the Wine and Street Food Festivals is a first for the Shack Summer Festival brand.
DJ Festival: December 16
The Shack Summer Festival will incorporate a DJ Festival on the Saturday as a curtain raiser to the main event on the following day.
The DJ Festival will ignite the weekend clubbers’ expectations and festival goers, addicted to music and dance, can expect their senses to thrive and succumb to both visual and acoustic entertainment provided by a jam- packed line up of SA’s finest DJs.
This entourage is down forthe perfect opportunity to scout out the potential party rockers while they exchange banter “in exchange” for a drink or two! Strictly +18 age groups.
Saturday, Street Food Festival: Sunday, December 17
Street food is ready-to-eat food or drink. At the Shack Summer Festival, it will be sold from a range of portable food booths and food carts for immediate consumption. Street Food isn’t just a passing fashion, it’s a new way of experiencing the age-old relationship between a society and its food; it has its own roots and is reinvented every day in ways that are innovative, surprising, practical and, above all, delicious.
Most street foods are classed as both finger food and fast food, and are cheaper on average than restaurant meals. According to a study from the Food and Agriculture Organisation, 2.5 billion people eat street food every day.
Wine Festival: December 17
The typical ingredients of a wine festival include wine drinking, foods and music. The SSF2017 has all the ingredients for a good local wine festival.
The SSF2017 wine festival will celebrate viticulture
Sunday, from a variety of represented vineyards. Patrons will be afforded the opportunity to taste selected wines on offer and stock up the Xmas stocking with the wines on sale. Participants in the wine industry will be encouraged to market their wines at special Shack Summer Festival promotional prices
Live Music Festival: Sunday, December 17
The live music component of the festival is regarded as the mainstay of the Shack Summer Festival brand. In the previous Shack Summer Festival events, each festival was underlined by a headline act:
2014 – South African super group of the 1970s and 1990s Pacific Express reunited for the first time in 40 years. It was also the only time that the group performed as Pacific Express because of the untimely death of Zane Adam less than two months after this reunion.
2015 – US internationally acclaimed Soul and R&B duo of Peaches & Herb.
2016 – Currently one of the hottest live and recorded music acts in South Africa – Mi Casa
SSF2017 will not feature a headline act but each artist will deliver a quality headline performance of original compositions and cover arrangements. The line-up consists of established and emerging local artists that are bound to deliver a surprise or two in music talent.
Artists for SSF2017
Richard Ceasar: Richard will be releasing his ninth album The Best Of Me vol1 at SSF2017. Ceasar studied classical guitar at UCT and is a well know guitarist, singer/ songwriter and keyboard player, besides being a highly sort after musician.
A professional musician for the last 32 years, extensively playing and touring abroad in countries like Australia and Dubai.
Ceasar lists Pat Martino, Pat Metheny and George Benson among his main influences.
He recently returned from a successful tour in Sydney Australia.
Sammy Webber & Brother 2 Brother: Acclaimed bassist Webber will reunite for the first time in decades with the Paulse brothers Tony and Brian.
The trio was a hit in the 1980s on the club and restaurant scene.
They will be delivering a classic Motown set interspersed with original music composed by Webber.
Vuvu Kumalo: Kumalo is a Cape Town diva who makes herself noticeable for her soulful sounds. She enjoys doing tributes to world renowned divas. Her voice is powerful and brings good crowd communication. She is about glitz and glamour on stage.
Kumalo also made her mark in the music industry nationally. Internationally in 2006 she did shows in Spain such as Donna Summer, Aretha, Tina, Bettie Wright to name a few.
Carmen Xclusive: Carmen Xclusive will add a special sparkle to SSF2017 by launching her album Carmen Xclusives’ The Collaboration Christmas time album (2017). Carmen Xclusives’ musical journey started in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town.
Many music lovers will simply know her as Carmen Herbert or even “Carmen from N2”. As with many musicians on the Cape Flats, the roots of her young talent lie within the church and it is there that her passion was born.
She has since learnt more about the music business and continues to impress music lovers throughout South Africa, with her pristine voice and soulful presentation.
Butler Connection: The Butler Connection are family members of the Butler family of which world renowned Jonathan Butler is a sibling.
His older siblings Danny and Sandra are the core of the Butler Connection outfit accompanied by extended family members as vocalists and instrumentalists.
They will be crooning the crowd with sentimental oldies and lots of local sounds.
Jazz Yard Academy: The Jazz Yard Academy is a small non-profit organisation operating in Bonteheuwel since April 2014, with the prime objective of creating a healthy society through the medium of music.
Under the guidance of experienced musicians, these youngsters (7–18 years old) find a new meaning to life.
It is encouraging to see the way music brings a smile to their faces, how excited they are about every new lesson! At first glance, their mission appears to be purely to give young people an opportunity to become proficient musicians, but the mission goes well beyond that.
They are passionate about creating a better society, where human qualities and principles proliferate.
Through love (Their motto “Spread the Love”), and encouragement and total support of individual expression, they strive to promulgate values such as: respect and tolerance for one another, self-belief and positivity, a nature of honesty, strife for success and excellence, independent thinking, creativity and innovation, and the knowledge that love can conquer the evils in our society.
The children have wowed their audiences wherever they perform – very often mixing it on-stage with some of our most highly respected local musicians, such as Ramon Alexander, Chadleigh Gowar, Shaun Johannes, Buddy Wells, Tony Cedras and Andrew Ford.
They have appeared on-stage at Community chest carnival, Artscape, AFDA Theatre, Nassau Theatre and the Baxter Theatre, and have been the opening band for new album releases by Blake Hellaby and Heinrich Isaacs.
Additional artists include Cole Adams and IT’s_ANNY (Andrea Fortuin).
The festival’s fresh flair will not only personify what celebrating over the festive season is all about but it will merge a melting pot of vinyl versus melodious percussion, partying, dancing, spontaneous give-aways and interactive activities.
SSF2017 is fashionably theme-driven with White and a Touch of Colour as the central theme for fashion and event décor. Tickets are available for R300 at the Pizza Shack, 10 Enslin Road in Ottery, contact thepizzashackbookings@ gmail.com or 021 703 1351.
Davids is event director