Aqua Festival – Concerts at the V&A Waterfront: 15 December 2009 – 6 January 2010

Posted on | November 26, 2009 | No Comments

The AQUAFestival is a new entertainment festival which will take place at the V&A Waterfront from 15 December 2009 – 6 January 2010. The festival will feature contemporary opera, ballet, jazz, rock, pop, tribute shows and a daily circus. That sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? Now how about this for something different… all the performances happen on a floating aquatic stage.

The AQUAFestival is the first in a series of V&A Waterfront Signature Events, which will be taking place in the coming months. It’s been organised by the V&A Waterfront in association with Hunta Live and M-Net. You can enjoy performances from the 53-piece Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Cape Town City Ballet, FreshlyGround, Johnny Clegg, The Parlotones and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, to name but a few. The AQUAbba tribute show, AQUA Jazz, AQUA Carols, AQUA Ballet and the AQUA Circus are also going to be very popular.

Here’s the full line-up:

15 December 2009 – 17 December 2009: H2Opera
16 December 2009 – 31 December 2009: AQUA Circus
18 December 2009: The Parlotones
19 December 2009: FreshlyGround
20 December 2009 & 21 December 2009: Miriam Makeba Homeage
22 December 2009 – 24 December 2009: AQUA Carols
26 December 2009 – 28 December 2009: Johnny Clegg
29 December 2009 – 31 December 2009: AQUAbba
1 January 2010: AQUA Jazz
2 January 2010 & 3 January 2010: AQUA Ballet
2 January 2010 – 6 January 2010: Princess of Pop
4 January 2010 – 6 January 2010: Ladysmith Black Mambazo

The AQUA Circus and Princess of Pop performances happen at 14h00 and 15h00 respectively, while the main evening musical performances take place at 20h30 and there’s a second performance of AQUAbba on 31 December 2010 at 22h00. It’s all happening at the North Wharf at the V&A Waterfront. You can buy tickets at any Computicket branch or online at www.computicket.com.