Cape Town Male Voice Choir meets Folk band Gravel Road

The Cape Town Male Voice Choir will host a very different sort of performance. For the first time that we know of in Cape Town, a choir will have a combined concert with a folk music band!

We hope audiences who enjoy choral, or folk will come along and listen to this mix of musical genres. There will also be the opportunity to sing with us on some folk standards.

Cape Town Male Voice Choir

The Cape Town Male Voice Choir was established in 1976, and since then has performed in a host of venues in and around Cape Town, where it has become noted for the quality of its singing and its highly varied repertoire. In recent years, the choir has expanded its reach in the Western and Southern Cape, and Gauteng. An award from the National Lottery in 2016 enabled it to increase and diversify its membership and repertoire and, in partnership with the CENESTRA Male Choir from Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, to tour Argentina and Uruguay in July 2017

Despite numerous challenges the Choir managed to stay alive during the COVID pandemic, and in December 2021 resumed performing.We concluded 2022 by joining forces with the Tygerberg City Choir in a performance of a Mendelssohn cantata in the Bishops Chapel and the Hugo Lamprecht’s Music Centre in Parow.

Gravel Road

The group consists of an aggregate collection of musicians, loosely comprising Nielen Prinsloo, Rob Anderson, Neil Harvey, John Bolton, Emma Rycroft, and Madeleine Ginn. Neil and Nielen are original members of Blacksmith, Rob, and John of the Irish band Shanty. Emma has performed with Rob, Nielen and Neil in the past and Maddy recently joined from the False Bay Folk Club. The band has played regularly at the Aegir Craft Brewery in Noordhoek for the past five years and continues to do so. Their repertoire includes traditional and not-so-traditional folk, bluegrass, sea shanties, instrumental pieces and a capella songs - in short, anything they like that can be rendered by voice and/or acoustic instruments. The collaboration with a formal choir is something new!