Free Community Concert Cape Town Jazz Festival 2008

Free Community Concert Cape Town Jazz Festival will get Greenmarket Square off its feet


Read more about the Cape Town International Jazz Festival in 2009.

The free community concert is the way for
every one to enjoy the Cape Town Jazz Festival in 2008, including those who can not afford tickets to the main Jazz Festival in the CTICC.

The free concert on Greenmarket Square is historically a great evening full of rhythm, and a true build up to the Cape Town International Jazz Festival the following days.

The Greenmarket jazz evening will take place on the 26th March 2008.

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The free concert offers a great evening of jazz and jazz fusions for all those Cape Town music fans who may not be able to attend the two nights at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, as well as those fans who do have tickets but still wouldn’t miss this annual festival ‘warm-up’.

As the free concert starts at 17h00, it will encourage many city workers to remain in the city after work that day, avoiding that heavy homeward-bound traffic.

They will join many music fans who will be coming into the city to experience the vibe of the CTIJF in the Square with its many busy pubs, restaurants, and hotels, and some great jazz echoing off the surrounding historic buildings.

The artists appearing at this year’s concert will be, UCT BIG BAND (13 piece), Jonathan Rubain, Ananda Project, Gerald Albright and Jimmy Dludlu.

It promises to be a diverse, exciting and entertaining bill. Each artist will perform for approximately 30 minutes, and the show is expected to finish at 10 pm.

SPECIAL TRAINS

A huge bonus for thos
e travelling to town by train is that SARCC Metrorail, now a Gold Sponsor of the CTIJF, will be operating three special trains departing Cape Town Station at 10:30 pm.

All Jazz lovers travelling
per train to Cape Town on Wednesday 26 March 2008 are to make use of the existing normal Metrorail train service on the forward journeys.

Special trains for such persons
have been scheduled for the return journeys after the event, and are reflected below.

Buy 1 get one free
(Buy a single ticket, get a return ticket free).

Concert goers can purchase train tickets to Cape Town only at any station from 2 pm onwards on the day of the concert.

Customers in possession
of valid weekly and monthly tickets (destination Cape Town), can use their existing tickets for the return journey.

CAPE FLATS LINE


TRAIN 0405 (STOPPING ALL STATIONS)
Cape Town (via Cape Flats)
D: 23:00 (Platform 15)

Heathfield
A: 23:40

CENTRAL LINE


TRAIN 0409 (STOPPING ALL STATIONS)
Cape Town (via Pinelands)
D: 23:10 (Platform 17)

Kapteinsklip
A: 00:01

NORTHERN LINE


TRAIN 0413 (STOPPING ALL STATIONS)
Cape Town (via Maitland)
D: 23:05 (Platform 9)

Bellville
A: 23:41

Road Closures

The public is advised that the following roads will be closed from 6 pm on Tuesday 25 until 6 am on Thursday 27 March:

Longmarket at Long Street
; Burg at Hout Street; Burg at Wale.

Church Street at Adderley
will be closed only on Wednesday the 26th.

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