Over 40 000 people attend RE/MAX De Waal Park concert series – Final show 17th March with Hotwater

The 2012 /2013 De Waal Park concert series ends on Sunday 17th March at 3pm with the fantastic Multi talented band Hotwater. The Citizen Newspaper rate the band as one of the most exciting talents to emerge from South Africa in the last few years . The band combine all the elements of traditional township pop including Kwela and Kwasa Kwasa.

Over 40 000 people have seen shows at the Park this Summer and have enjoyed the Park.

Gerlinder Moser from RE/MAX who is instrumental sponsoring the series remarked that she was “stunned with the turnout at the shows and her personal financial involvement has paid off with the ultimate accolade of over 40 000 people attending the series.”

Gerlinder continued to comment ” We got great pleasure to see the park with so many Capetonians enjoying a public space and bringing kids to see great music”

The concerts held on Sunday afternoons in order to be as accessible as possible for the local community, and ensuring that parents with younger children have the opportunity to attend too. Dog are always welcome.

The Friends of De Waal Park was formed in 2008 by group of volunteers, comprised of individuals who live in the area, to assist the city maintain and improve the park for its citizens.

They pay for the pond to be cleaned, for some gardening in the park and for the all important ‘pooh packets’ for the dog walkers!

They have repaired benches and arranged for the for the toilet block to remain open after hours. They have upgraded the children’s play area and arranged for additional tables and benches to be placed in the park.

The Summer Concerts got staged in the original Edwardian bandstand which was manufactured by Messrs Walter McFarlane & Co of Glasgow and presented to ‘the corporation’ in Cape Town by the Traders-Market & Exhibition Ltd. London in 1904. It was moved from the original exhibition space in Green Point to De Waal Park some years later.

‘We are privileged to have an Edwardian bandstand and what is a bandstand for if not for music?’ Said Mike Bosazza, Chairman of FoDWP. ‘We get pleasure by bringing music back into the city bowl for the whole community, and we like to encourage people to use and enjoy our wonderful park even once the series is over and please continue to enjoy the great public space .