Times Of Swaziland: PURE VOICES EASTER CONCERT A MARVEL!

PURE VOICES EASTER CONCERT A MARVEL!
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BY PHUMELELE MKHONTA on 15/04/2019 08:43:00


MBABANE – The first Pure Voices Easter Concert has broken the ice with Easter!
Friday night saw beautiful renditions of music and theatre at St Mark’s High
School Hall in Mbabane. This was made possible by the recently crowned Standard
Bank Choral Competition 2019 Standard Silver champions, Pure Voices, who
rendered beautiful music and the Mater Dolorosa Church (MDC) Youth which
performed the Crucifixion play. The show started at 7pm and from the start, the
choir sang their lungs out, including the ‘The Lord is my Shepherd song’
which evoked the Good Friday holiday mood.
The MDC Youth’s play began at 8:30pm until 9:45pm, displaying every scene from
the Bible vividly. The aim behind the event is charity. The choir, which is
hosting its second concert, is aiming at providing blankets and other winter
clothes for five elderly people in Mbabane.
The concert will also benefit the Mater Dolorosa School youth that will be
acting at the crucifixion of Jesus through the proceeds from tickets that will
be sold. Pure Voices Choir will cover the costs of hosting the concert. Pure
Voices a choral music choir based in Mbabane and most of its members are pupils
from Fonteyn and Mhlatane High School and students from the different tertiary
institutions. The oldest chorister is 34 years old. The MCs of the day were John
Pires and Siphesihle Nkonyane. Pure Voices CEO, who is also the Eswatini
National Choral Music Asscoiation, Sihle Gumbi thanked the other choirs for the
support. “The fact that choirs are starting to support each other means there
is a bright future inthis fraternity,” he said.