26 Feb & 1 March
15 & 19 Feb
Cape Town and Johannesburg
Eight-time Grammy award winners Santana will
be touring at the end of summer, performing three
shows in Cape Town on 25, 26, and 27 February
before finishing the South African leg of their world
tour with an all-out spectacular at the Calabash in
Soweto on 1 March.
Led by Carlos Santana, who is among the world’s
most celebrated guitarists, the band first gained
commercial success after their 1969 Woodstock
performance and the 1970 release of the album
Abraxas, which included the now classic hits “Black
Magic Woman” and “Oye Como Va”.
Santana will be in good company this summer as
the announcement comes shortly after Eminem also
announced his first visit to the continent, with shows
scheduled for Cape Town’s Stadium on 26 February
and at Johannesburg’s Ellis Park Stadium on
1 March. Choices! Choices!
Cape Town, Johannesburg
and Durban
Want to see some of the biggest and most
dangerous stunts in freestyle motocross, skate and
BMX with over 40 of the world’s best action sports
athletes performing their biggest and best tricks?
Then you won’t want to miss the Nitro Circus Live’s
tour, coming to South Africa for the first time in 2014.
“This is truly an exciting, adrenaline-charged,
live action sports show featuring an insane group
of athletes who push each other to new extremes
every single show,” says action sports legend Travis
Pastrana, a 10-time X Games gold medallist in
Freestyle Motocross, who heads up the tour.
These guys also push their limits on a range of
whacky contraptions, including a drinks cooler, Barbie
car, toy trike, shopping trolley, boogie board and
more. One of the craziest stunts is the extraordinary
“hole-in-one” where riders launch 50 feet into the
air off the Gigant-A-Ramp and attempt to land with
pinpoint accuracy inside an inflatable Zorb ball.
Nitro Circus Live will perform on 15 February
at Cape Town Stadium, 19 February at Moses
Mabhida Stadium, Durban and
22 February at FNB Stadium,
Johannesburg.
Santana Live
in SA
29 APRIL – 5 MAY
KKNK
(Klein Karoo Nationale
Kunstefees)
Oudtshoorn, Klein Karoo,
Western Cape
If you haven’t heard of the KKNK, you haven’t
lived in South Africa long enough. Basically it’s
the Grahamstown festival in the Karoo, but its
Afrikaans version. The KKNK has more of an
emphasis on the live music aspect, with shows
like Kaktus Op Die Vlaktes, but there is a bit of
everything for everyone. Theatre, craft markets,
beer tents, copious amounts of brandy – it’s all
here. Don’t be put off by the Afrikaans moniker if
you’re not so linguistically inclined, you’ll be made
to feel at home and find something to your liking.
www.kknk.co.za
Nitro Circus
Live
Watch Travis Pastrana nail his
first double back flip at the
X Games in 2006.
http://youtu.be/pLtRW_7_piY
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