Thank you to our sponsors for your contribution to our annual charity concert in aid of Stellenbosch Child Welfare. The performance of Misa Criolla by the SA Youth Choir was a triumph, the spiritual nature of the music being beautifully complemented by the atmospheric barrel cellar in which it was performed.Due to unprecedented interest, we had to keep making more space for those who wanted to attend this unique event, and in the end we managed to raise R32 000 for this worthy cause.  Not only that, this year we requested that the audience bring along blankets to snuggle in against the winter cold, and at the end of the evening we collected them to donate to needy children.

Furthermore, supporting the South African Youth Choir gives eighty high school youths, many from impoverished backgrounds, the chance to develop not only musically, but in every aspect of life.

It is the generosity of the Stellenbosch community that makes all this possible, and we are truly appreciative of your support.

Extract from Neil Pendock’s blog Pendock Uncorked:

The Stellenbosch Wine Week kicked off on a spiritual note last night with a performance of Misa Criolla, an amazing folk Argentinean mass, sung by the SA Youth Choir in a most unusual cathedral – the barrel cellar of the Delheim Winery. The street music of Buenos Aires was given a distinct township twist with curio Zulu drums and a boere trekklavier and sufficient ethnic diversity to drive WOSA (the exporter’s association with motto ‘variety is in our nature’) into religious ecstasy.