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” TALES OF TRANSFORMATION”

GAVIN BONNER presents

“TALES OF TRANSFORMATION”
featuring special guest NATALIE MASON on viola

Fresh from three years of travelling, studying, teaching and performing in Europe, Asia, The Middle East and Australia, Cape Town based Londoner Gavin Bonner with special guest Natalie Mason brings you “TALES OF TRANSFORMATION” – stories that focus on many aspects of change, from the spiritual to the evolutionary to the plain weird !

Gavin has a refreshing take on storytelling – a deep reverence for tradition juxtaposes with iconoclasm and an occasional dose of healthy irreverence. He also has a unique ability to spontaneously tell stories in rhyme while accompanying himself on Asian and African percussion instruments learned during his travels.

“Gavin Bonner is an inspiration. A poet, storyteller, musician and praise singer all in one he lets his wordplay weave and speak spontaneously to whatever is happening in a group of people .” – Ashley Ramsden , international storyteller and founder of The School of storytelling in England.

Originally from Birmingham in England, Natalie Mason’s musical life began in the womb, when her mother describes her kicking during a concert at the climax of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. As a baby she was weaned on strange Sixties music, her cradle rocked by her father’s foot as he practiced guitar. Natalie learnt to sight sing as she learnt to read and at the age of five took up violin and piano. It was around this time she began composing her first opera (alas, an unfinished opus). As a child she was thoroughly involved in the arts and soon got wise, deciding to switch her fiddle for a viola. As a youth she performed live on television and radio in an orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall and recorded for eccentric pop bands as a session musician. As an adult she graduated with a degree in Music and decided to travel to Cape Town to work for the Music Therapy Community Clinic. With this organisation and others she runs music groups for school children in Heideveld, patients at a TB hospital and teaches youth in a Junk Orchestra. She is an improvising musician with the Bonfire Theatre Company, a member of alternative folk groups Jeremiah Brimstone Band and amaBhulu? and a freelance classical performer. She finds that there is always so much to see, do and learn here and loves being a musician in the many worlds Cape Town has to offer.

“Tales of Transformation” continually surprises and delights audiences
around the world and is suitable for AGES 13 UPWARDS. Ticket price R50 p.p. – BOOK ON 073-2205430