South African Popular Songs Workshop with South African Lyric Soprano Joyce Moholoagae
Venue: Small Studio, Mary Allan Building, Faculty of Education within Homerton College, Hills Road. Entry via the Porters Lodge. No parking available on site but the NCP car park is 5 mins walk away and many residential roads nearby may have spaces. A number of buses stop directly outside, and the venue is an easy cycle or walk from the city centre.
Time: 1.30 to 3.30 pm
Entry Fee: £5 for workshop + closing film ticket Hear me Move
Online booking: http://bit.ly/songsworkshop
South African lyric soprano Joyce Moholoagae will be running a workshop on South African Popular Songs.
We are extremely grateful to the Faculty of Education for offering a great space to host this unique workshop.
Students attending this course will make an online booking and pay £5 in cash on the door that will entitle them to attend the workshop and the screening of the closing film of the festival, Hear me Move at the Arts Picturehouse, where they will sing one of the learned songs from the audience.
About the workshop
All levels! No experience needed! Do you like singing? Please come along!
This is the first time that Cambridge will have the chance to learn South African Popular Songs.
A message from Joyce: “Learning is by call and respond. There is no need for previous knowledge. The best way of making people feel at ease is by making them know that there is no need to read music. They will learn by call an response”.
The songs that will be learned include:
- Nelson Mandela: a song giving praise and appreciation to Nelson Mandela.
- Thula Baba: a South African Lullaby.
Joyce Moholoagae
Since August 2006, South African lyric soprano, Joyce Moholoagae, has inspired thousands of singers in her role as workshop leader with Mbawulaaround the UK. Her instinctive knowledge of African culture and song was enhanced by study at the University of Natal where she gained a Diploma in music performance. Further study for a postgraduate diploma in opera at the Royal Academy of Music and the experience of several hundred Mbawula choral workshops has developed a set of skills enabling her to effortlessly move between the traditions of both African song and classical vocal production.
A native speaker of several African languages, Joyce is able to interpret, inflect and translate meaning and articulation to choral singers from different backgrounds and cultures, regardless of experience and skill level. With Mbawula, she has inspired singers from the ages of 5 to 75 to sing confidently in Zulu, Sesotho, Xhosa and Setswana and has provided a focus, context and framework for this joyful and profound music.
With a natural and welcoming style, Joyce Moholagae also has the necessary skills to draw young (and less young) people into the world of African dance and movement: this results in a spectacular explosion of song and dance on stage with Mbawula and illustrates the skills possessed by Joyce to inspire the head, heart and feet.
Hear me Move is the first South African street dance film. Following the screening, we will host a Q&A with the film director. The evening will close with the live performance of Joyce Moholoagae.
This event has been organised as part of the South African Season in the United Kingdom 2014 & 2015. The SA-UK Seasons is a partnership between the Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa and the British Council.
With the support of the BFI, Awarding funds from the National Lottery.
