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Manteca is Durban’s hot Afro-Caribbean Salsa band. The Band has been moving hips and lighting up dance floors around the various salsa and live music venues in KZN and JHB since 2009.
The band is currently an 8 piece line up consisting: Raul Vasquez (a bona fide Salsa Dance Champion and instructor) on male vocals, Nosihe Zulu on female vocals, Avikaar Maney on Alto sax, Johan van der Molen on Tenor sax, Daniel Sheldon on Trumpet, Alberto Chemane on percussion/kit, Monks Legget on Bass and Avinash Maney on keys and Guitar.
Our repertoire includes some traditional and folkloric Afro Caribbean songs (Anabacoa, RanKanKan, La Esencia del Guaguanco) as well as some more contemporary tunes (Havana, Despacito, All of Me) and some Latin favorites (Oye Como Va, Labamba, Guantanamera) and some Latin versions of our own South African favorites (Pata Pata, Ntjilo Ntjilo, Meadowlands).
We have a crew of Salsa dancers that can be brought in to share and activate your Dance floor as well as some professional Dancers who can lead your guests in a fun and interactive Salsa line dance (a fantastic ice breaker) and do some dance Demo features and even lead a class on the beginner steps of Salsa.
The band has evolved over the years varying between a 13 piece and an 8 piece line up featuring a culturally diverse array of individuals with a passion for the intense rhythmically charged art form of Afro Caribbean music (a fusion itself of European classical and African musical traditions).
Durban’s hot-blooded, authentic, cooking Afro Cuban Salsa Band. Continuing the evolution and journey of Salsa and making it a part of Durbans Rich Cultural identity.
The band has over its existence featured at many corporate, cultural and sport events with even a favorably reviewed show at the local Rhumbelow Theatre.
Manteca (meaning Fat or Grease) loves fusing ideas of Music, Dance, Art, Architecture, Culture and Fashion (even inspiring a range of “Manteca Shirts” by Designer KMK).
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ROSANTHORN CELLO TRIO are new, innovative and one of the most enchanting new collaborations on the corporate entertainment scene. This stylish act takes the cello to new heights with their hauntingly beautiful music and bewitching performances.
The Album:
This world-first all-female electric cello trio has released their first album.
The Performances:
Rosanthorn has performed twice at the Oude Libertas Concert Series, headlined the Plett Music Festival, Greyton Classics for All.
They are hugely popular for gala events and have performed for YPO (2000 guests), Toyota, ICC, Distell, Zeitz and numerous international tour groups.
Their TV appearances include Expresso Show and Hectic Nine 9. Rosanthorn has featured in SA’s top print media and on radio (Cape Talk, KFM, FMR etc)
The Music:
Rosanthorn have set out a compositional and technical journey to explore all that the Cello has to offer across multiple genres and timbres, with the help of South Africa’s top composers and producers.
The ROSANTHORN CELLO TRIO repertoire includes recordings and re-interpretations of works as varied as Vivaldi’s Double Concerto in G Minor, Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, Imogen Heap’s Hide & Seek, Bright Blue’s Weeping and Abdulla Ibrahim’s Mannenberg. Anjulie Nock has composed new works such as Night Journey (with a stirring Game of Thrones feel) and an original Tango (think Scent of a Woman for Cello).
The Parting, by Helmut Meijer, is a reflective, stripped-down, soulful composition which inspired their first music video. Their second video (Secrets by One Republic) was released in May 2019 and was filmed at Zeitz MOCAA.
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Andy Hadfield is a digital native – he can’t really remember life without the internet. He is fascinated with the impact it is having on our lives, as well as our businesses. Andy is a Business Speaker on IT Trends for the future.
With an entertaining and compelling personality, he speaks with authority and insight about the new shape of life, work and play in our digital world.
Andy’s achievements:
Andy launched his first start-up at the tender age of 19 – getALife. This social network was a political and community mouthpiece for South African students between 1997 – 2005.
This site was covered on every major media platform, including Time Magazine. It also has the dubious honour of being sued by Robert Mugabe.
Andy Hadfield spent the next 7 years, mastering his strategic skills across a wide range of industries, including finance, professional services, construction and media
Andy was also involved with creating South Africa’s first monetised niche social network, DesignMind which drives communication and collaboration across the construction industry.
He helped FNB develop a team to manage their digital strategy across the consumer banking segment.
This included projects such as ‘corporate crowdsourcing’, the bank’s first official Facebook presence, a major overhaul of the consumer website and a world-class ‘Amazon-style’ online sales system – so that consumers can get FNB products in under ten minutes, and not even moving from their couch!
Real Time Wine is a retail discovery engine and consumer review community for the wine industry. It is the mobile application and the social community for everyone who enjoys wine and not just for those who understand it. The product has now been extended into the beer industry, with MyBEER, an innovative collaboration with SAB.
Andy Hadfield is a Business Speaker who will in an energetic manner wow you with IT trends and how we can move forward in business.
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Yolande Steyn – Digital Leadership specialises in “out the box” thinking, strategy and execution in digital an innovation.
With 20 years of experience in Financial Services and Telecoms Yolande combines a deep love for technology and business with creativity and her ability to think differently to implement practical, human-friendly digital innovation.
Notable innovations include:
• CEO and Founder of FNB eWallet Solutions; Head of FNB Innovation; Founding member of FNB Cellphone Banking and its subsequent rollout on Africa; Branchless banking for FirstRand Bank India and FNB Zambia,
• Managing Executive Vodacom Digital
• Other notable projects include eBucks, MTN Call Awards, MTN ICE and Virgin Mobile Australia “Vibe”,
Yolande is able to combine a deep love for technology and business with my creativity and ability to think differently to implement practical, human-friendly digital innovation.
With 20 years experience in Financial Services and Telecoms, Yolande Steyn – Digital Leadership has worked in South Africa, Africa and India and understand developing markets and its challenges.
• As a Mobile money and Innovation expert she has spoken at numerous conferences and media events.
• Yolande Steyn – Digital Innovation is able to tailor my keynotes to the audience, with a central theme of “How do we ensure our innovations and technology are meaningful for emerging markets
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If ever there was a band that gave life to that weird South African music phenomenon which has everyone who hears their music assuming they are an international act, then Joe Niemand – Conference Entertainers is it.
For months now, the four piece’s melodic rock has dominated airwaves, with songs like “Words” and “Simple Truth” easily slipping into the hearts and minds of music fans now rapidly cottoning onto the fact that Niemand is proudly South African – a truly homegrown group that makes music of a global standard.
That Niemand crafts songs so effortlessly memorable has much to do with the group’s namesake and frontman.
Joe Niemand has been quietly moving behind-the-scenes of the South African music industry, becoming an in-demand songwriter and performer for those in the know – credited for his intuitive gift for a melody and knack of crafting lyrics that speak of universal themes of love, struggle and redemption.
Put this to Joe, however, and this unassuming singer and songwriter is reluctant to make too big a fuss out of his unparalleled reputation in the South African music business, professing to hardly remembering his impressive slate of work.
“I feel like my musical life is beginning with Reborn. It’s the album that I have been waiting to make for years because before this, my songwriting took the form of whoever I was writing for.
With Reborn I wrote every song specifically for this album, with each representing something extremely important in my life.”
Much of Joe Niemand’s low-profile has to do with Joe’s belief in letting the music speak for itself. And thankfully for fans of perfectly on-point rock music, Reborn’s set of 14-songs is gaining momentum, on the back of solid radio-play, the selection of “Rise” as Supersport’s official theme for last November’s UK Springbok rugby tour and plenty of word-of-mouth buzz around the group.
What sets apart Niemand’s debut is the intense journey the album represents – a representation through words, music and visuals (check out Reborn’s artwork) of Joe’s personal journey of the past 10 years.
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Michael Scholz is an accomplished speaker and has MC’d hundreds of events over the past few years.
He has also assisted a number of auction memorabilia companies with incorporating and auctioning auction items at golf days and fundraising events.
Michael Scholz is a professional golfer and current member of the Sunshine Tour.
In the past, he has competed extensively on a number of the major professional golfing circuits around the world, namely the European Tour, the Asian Tour, the European Challenge Tour and of course, on the South African Sunshine Tour.
Master of Ceremonies
Michael is an accomplished speaker and has MC’d hundreds of events over the past few years.
He has also assisted a number of auction memorabilia companies with incorporating and auctioning auction items at golf days and fundraising events.
He can adapt the genre of the event’s requirements from comedy functions through to formal and gala evenings.
The Show
Typically the trick shot show is around 40 minutes, but can be adapted to be longer or shorter. No less than 30 minutes is required for the full entertainment value to be achieved.
Michael’s trick shot show incorporates various trick shots, including hitting golf balls:
Off a skateboard
Backwards
Left-Handed & Right-Handed
One-Handed
Off One Knee
Off Both Knees
With the back of a Club
Off one Leg
Off a Beer Bottle
Off a cellphone
High Tees
Michael’s show also features various impersonations of some of the world’s legendary golfers, many of whom he has played and socialised with.
The impersonations include Gary Player, Ian Woosnam, David Feherty, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, John Daly, Phil Mickelson and a few others.
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