Powers to sparkle at jewellery event
SOUTH African pop-rock superstar PJ “Thandeka” Powers will be in Port Elizabeth on Saturday, December 10 to perform at Shining Light, a jewellery launch with a charity twist presented by Bay designer Jenni Gault.
Fairview Racecourse will be the venue to showcase Jenni Gault International Jewellery Design’s new range over a tapas style lunch.
Shining Light will also introduce four students Gault is mentoring in conjunction with Khulisa Social Solutions. The designer has recruited and is training the quartet on jewellery design and their work will also be on sale.
Powers often visits the Bay and sang at the Divas In Spring concert held at Victoria Park alongside other national treasures like Lira and Judith Sephuma.
Powers wore jewellery by Jenni Gault for her performance and asked the Port Elizabeth designer to create a piece for her.
Gault then developed a personalised range of bracelets for the singer, which Powers took with her when she travelled overseas in October, and sold. This new range will also be on show next weekend. Famous since the 1980s when her group Hotline was the largest selling band in SA, Powers has had a long solo career as well. At the event she will sing excerpts from her latest album, Destiny.
She has sung with many of the greats – Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Eric Clapton, Joan Armitrading and Harry Belafonte. But, perhaps the greatest highlight was receiving a letter from Nelson Mandela when he was in Victor Verster prison, still one of her most treasured possessions.
Tickets, which is a seated event, cost R250. This includes a Swarovski gift from Jenni Gault International Jewellery Design.
ý Shining Light starts at 12 noon. Inquiries: 083-379-9797, admin@jennigault.com