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

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 from Computicket.

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