Watch Jamie Fine perform live in Johannesburg
The Canada-born singer and songwriter will will bring the fun to the city this spring.
She will perform at the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden in Roodepoort on September 27.
Fine is coming to Mzansi as part of the If This Is It Tour, which began at Markham, Ontario, in Canada, on July 1st.
She will also perform in other parts of the country, including Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria and Brits.
Tickets are sold R350pp to R995per person at can be purchased via Quicket.
Fans can expect her to sing some of her songs from her latest EP, If This Is It, and her latest single, Wait For Forever.
Many South Africans love the four-time Juno nominee. Her single, If Anything's Left, reached Double Platinum in South Africa.
The singer's music has over 100 million global streams.
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The Guardian
13 hours ago
- The Guardian
‘It felt like a scene from The Handmaid's Tale': US comics on the dangers of political satire
In April, comedian Jena Friedman had a strange encounter in Vancouver airport. She had just performed a Ted talk about the future of comedy and was heading home to the US, when someone she thought worked for airport security quizzed her about her visit. Thinking he was probing for visa infringements, 'I just said I was doing comedy. Then he asked: 'What do you joke about?' Stupidly, I lightly flirted with him, and was like: 'Everything other than airport security!' He didn't react at all. Then I realised he was US border control. He asked again: 'What do you joke about?'' Friedman is a veteran of The Daily Show and The Late Show, and her standup comedy often features excoriating routines at the expense of the political establishment. 'I just froze because I am a political comedian and I didn't know what to say. Then he said: 'Do you joke about politicians?'' She made it home, but the incident stuck with her. Friedman lives in LA, and the recent actions of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement 'detaining anyone and everyone who looks a certain way' put her on high alert. 'It was such a quick, on its face benign, interaction,' she says. 'But it did feel like a scene out of The Handmaid's Tale. I'm a blonde, white woman who looks like a Republican's wife and I have an American passport. But what if I had said 'Yes?' Don't we want to live in a country where we can joke about politicians, where we can joke about anything?' Friedman incorporated that moment into her new standup show, Motherf*cker, which she's performing at the Edinburgh fringe. The show is a change of pace. She's generally resisted getting personal on stage, resenting the idea that women have to be relatable to succeed in comedy, but this time it felt unavoidable, as she explores the life-changing experience of becoming a parent while her own mother was dying. 'It's about grief, but it's also political,' she says. 'The vibe in certain circles does feel like we're grieving. So there's something about my show that's connecting to the larger moment.' Friedman is among a crop of US comedians with roots in topical comedy appearing at this year's fringe. Another stalwart of US political comedy, Michelle Wolf, is back, too, while standup and former Saturday Night Live writer Sam Jay is making her festival debut. Wolf earned her stripes on The Daily Show and Late Night with Seth Myers, and gained notoriety with her 2018 set at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, in which she roasted Trump and his collaborators. These days, she lives in Barcelona, although returns to the US regularly for comedy work. She's yet to encounter border trouble but, with reports of people with green cards and citizens being detained, she says: 'I'm keeping an eye on it.' Comedians Rosie O'Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres have both said that the state of US politics has forced them out of the country – O'Donnell to Ireland and DeGeneres to England. O'Donnell has written a show on just that, which she performed for the first week of the fringe. Wolf is happy with her move to Barcelona, and feels her comedy has benefited from other cultural perspectives, but returns to the US because 'the audiences are great' and there's plenty of work. While other US comedians have also discussed the idea of moving to Europe, she thinks it won't happen until there's 'an impetus to go, something I don't think is far off, like: you can't talk about this any more, you can't talk about that any more'. Last month, satirist Stephen Colbert announced that network CBS had cancelled The Late Show after 33 years. Many thought the timing, three days on from Colbert criticising CBS parent company Paramount for settling a lawsuit with Donald Trump, was suspect. Fellow late-night talkshow host Jon Stewart criticised the move on his podcast and pointed to wider fear across the industry.: 'There are a lot of things that will never be made, that you will never know about, that will be killed in the bed before they ever had a chance because of this chilling effect.' Friedman's glad to see Colbert and Stewart speaking out against Trump and his administration – and agrees there's a 'chill'. 'The industry has already been less supportive of political comedy than they were under Biden and Obama. However, 'seeing the most prominent comedians taking [Trump] to task, like Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker] from South Park, Colbert and Stewart, that gives me hope'. Meanwhile, Michelle Wolf's standup merges the personal and political and her podcast, Wolf's Thought Box, tackles current affairs. Her new show, which she's performing while eight months pregnant at the fringe, explores life and society 'through the lens of being a mom now'. There are punchlines on societal pressures for working mothers, home birth, momfluencers, gender inequalities and more. 'We're in an era now where people are talking about motherhood realistically and that's very refreshing,' she says. Still, political comedy isn't absent. 'I feel like I have to address the whole America and Trump thing … people expect me to say something about it.' She plans to tailor topical jokes to the day's news but, 'I don't like making it a large part of my set, because it bores me. There's always something crazy happening, but it's hard to come up with creative angles other than: can you believe this?' It's been nine years since she first started writing jokes about Trump and, in that time, her life has transformed – she met her partner, moved abroad, and is about to have her second child. Her main feeling now is: 'How are we still talking about him? How are we still in the same spot?' Jay reflects that slow build in her show, We the People, in which she explores the state of America – looking back to the 'unconfident whites' who founded the nation. She describes the show as 'a fun, risky little ride' as she tries to get to the root of why the US feels so divided, and what we can do to better understand one another. 'It's this broader conversation I've been having about America and race,' Jay says. The whole world feels unsettled right now and there's an inability to consider other perspectives, Jay says. 'How did we get here as Americans? Of course, I think race plays a large part in it. And how did these race relations get to the way they are? Not just blaming white people, but exploring the type of white people we're dealing with, why they might be the way they are, their roots in England.' Trump came up plenty during Jay's time on SNL and appears in her fringe show as a 'braggadocious' fool, unable to keep state secrets, yet smartly appealing to the frustrations of America's poor white communities. But the conditions that created and elevated Trump are more interesting to Jay: 'He's the symptom of this, not the cause. This is a result of years and years of us doing it wrong … it's been building for a long time and for a lot of different reasons.' Friedman agrees: 'I started working at the Daily Show in 2012, I was at Letterman before that, so I started looking at politics on a daily basis since 2010, and this is a long time coming.' This also means that, among US audiences, not everyone wants political comedy. 'They're always looking for escapism. In the first term, there was definite Trump fatigue,' Friedman says. 'As a political comic, I've always done better in the UK than the US. It's the UK audiences who are like: what the hell's going on over there?' says Friedman. The mood in US comedy is, Jay says, 'the mood in America … chaos. There's no way to keep up. People are also very desensitised. Shit just keeps happening in more extreme ways that people are losing a metric for it.' All three agree that comedy can help share differing worldviews. 'Even if it's people we disagree with, the sign of a healthy democracy is when people can safely be on stage saying whatever we want, ideally in good faith,' Friedman says. 'I support all comedians, I support freedom of expression and I want to see more of it. I want to see people more open to people they disagree with. Whenever I do political comedy, the goal is not to preach to the choir, it's to get people to see things slightly differently.' Jay has said that comedy can be a tool for empathy. 'I look at it as a conversation. It can serve a purpose of actual understanding, understanding that we're all humans trying to figure out a thing that doesn't make a lot of sense – existing. Everybody is grappling with these things in their own way.' What does the future hold for US comedians? 'It's too soon to tell,' says Friedman. 'But I think everybody exercising the US first amendment in a way that's funny and disarming is really important right now.' Jay says: 'Once I'm on stage, I'm gonna say what I'm gonna say. If I can't come back as a result, I'll just have to have my girlfriend come meet me in Scotland.' Jena Friedman: Motherf*cker is at Hive 1 at Monkey Barrel Comedy until 24 August. Michelle Wolf is at various venues until 17 August. Sam Jay: We the People is at Pleasance Courtyard until 24 August
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Scotsman
16 hours ago
- Scotsman
Benedetti & Sitkovetsky's Tribute to Menuhin
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Sitkovetsky Trio ★★★★★ Queen's Hall Even the sudden, ear-shattering roaring from a forgotten turned-on microphone couldn't put the Sitkovetsky Trio players off their stride. They'd just launched into the furious scherzo of Shostakovich's Second Piano Trio when the noise forced them to stop, only to begin the movement again even more vehemently, even savagely. The interruption probably couldn't have come in a more fitting place - and they continued with a deeply tragic slow-movement chaconne, all sobbing phrases against a monumental piano backdrop, and a bitter, grotesque finale that left few doubts as to Shostakovich's vitriolic sarcasm. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad It was typical of the Trio's intensely felt, forcefully projected performances across their programme of classics and rarities. In the second category, the Sitkovetsky players made a thrillingly strong case for Chaminade's little-known Second Piano Trio, revelling in its almost orchestral-scale textures and churning emotions, even if their more recent commission, To the Pointer Stars by Iranian-born, London-based Mahdis Golzar Kashani, proved a little more elusive, slipping into attractive grooves that seemed to lack a sense of forward movement. They opened, however, with a bounding and big-boned Beethoven 'Ghost' Trio, perhaps overegging the second movement's unsettling otherworldliness, but offering a finale in grand arcs of sound that was both captivating and galvanising. Despite unexpected sonic intrusions, a concert of compelling performances and profound emotional depths. David Kettle Benedetti & Sitkovetsky's Tribute to Menuhin ★★★★ Granted the rarely bestowed Freedom of the City of Edinburgh 60 years ago in recognition of his contribution to Scotland's capital, much of it via the Edinburgh International Festival, legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin would surely have been proud of the tribute paid to him on Monday evening at the Usher Hall. Led by Nicola Benedetti and fellow violinist from her Menuhin School days, Alexander Sitkovetsky, it was an evening of poignancy and affection from the joint directors and players of Wroclaw's National Forum of Music, appearing as part of the EIF's focus on Poland season. Hearing the pair as an infectiously joyous alliance in Bach's Concerto for Two Violins was one of these unique festival moments that leave an indelible mark. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Fluent and well matched in tone and style, the second movement's interweaving scoring of the solo lines gleamed with radiant beauty. To start, Elgar's Serenade for String Orchestra, with EIF Rising Stars swelling the ranks, was promising in intent but not quite sufficiently settled across the ensemble. A different matter, however, when they returned for Bartok's Divertimento for String Orchestra, with its folksy and fulsome bite and energy, especially from the lower strings. Carol Main Triptic ★★★★ The Hub Violinist Greg Lawson, pianist and accordionist Phil Alexander and double-bassist Mario Caribé have played together for many years, notably in the much-loved Moishe's Bagel, purveyors of klezmer, tango and much else. Now, as the trio Triptic, they continue to gleefully defy categorisation. Their engagingly melodic and tightly delivered repertoire from their new album, The Jackdaw Sessions, reflected diverse musical influences and sources of inspiration. Alexander's opener hinted at Erik Satie, played over a stately, descending bass, until Lawson's klezmer-sounding violin soared to stratospheric trilling. Another, plaintive, Jewish-sounding air had been unearthed recently in Kiev, while Caribé's Flatlands, with its resonant bass work, was inspired by Lincolnshire scenery. A pensive waltz by Alexander commemorated a much-loved cocker spaniel, while a lusty rumba by Caribe celebrated his venturesome Spanish-Brazilian grandmother, its energetic progression from minor to major reflecting Spanish then Brazilian rumba styles. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad There was much humanity about it all, as in Lawson's twinning of the lovely Northumbrian lullaby Bonny at Morn with a spirited, tango-like number which had been passed on to him, amid heartbreaking circumstances, by an Iranian refugee, and not least in Phil Alexander's winsome epilogue, Evening Song, with which they dispatched us on our way.
Daily Mail
19 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Influencer couple die in off-road accident while traveling through wilderness
A Canadian influencer couple who shared their expansive off-roading adventures online have died in a horror crash while driving through rugged terrain. Stacey Tourout and Matthew Yeomans, the pair behind the Toyota World Runners YouTube channel, died on August 7 in the mountainous region near to Trout Lake in British Columbia. The pair had over 200,000 subscribers and more than 72,000 Instagram followers who they kept updated on their explorations through North and South America. As confirmed by Stacey's mother in a heartbreaking social media post, Stacey and Matthew died together in an off-road accident 'in the beautiful mountains of British Columbia that they loved so much.' Collen Tourot wrote: 'Please keep us and them in your thoughts and prayers as we navigate this devastating end to an amazing Love Story.' Stacey and Mathew's claim to fame was building the 'world's first Land Cruiser Chinook in 100 days,' according to their YouTube bio. The custom vehicle combines the body of a Toyota Chinook camper and a Toyota Land Cruiser to essentially create the perfect camper for off-roading. It is unclear if the couple were driving the Land Cruiser when the fatal crash occurred. While the cause of the incident is unconfirmed, Mark Jennings-Bates of Kaslo Search and Rescue (SAR), told CBC that they likely lost control of their vehicle on the rocky route. He was also unsure if they were filming their trip when the accident occurred. The search and rescue team was alerted that there was an alarming incident at around 7:30pm on the day Stacey and Matthew died. Jennings-Bates said 'teams were able to get to them efficiently' and one of the victims was found dead on site. The other was transported to the hospital, where they later succumbed to their critical injuries. In light of the devastating loss to their loved ones and the international online community they have built, social media has been flooded with heartfelt tributes, remembering the ambitious duo. Shaun, the creator behind The Story Till Now YouTube channel, wrote: 'They were so young and full of life, so talented, and this is a huge loss for our off-road community, their friends and family, and the world.' He explained that while he never met them in person, he often spoke with Matthew on the phone. Shaun revealed that the last time he had spoken to Matthew was the day before he and his fiancee died. Shaun's jeep broke down, and he was 'trying to figure out how to get it home.' He continued: 'We joked about how we would have finally met up the next day if not for my Jeep breaking down, but talked about getting some firm plans on the books for a trip next month. 'They tragically passed away that very next day in an accident, and I'm just devastated over it.' Another off-roading creator, Colin Stuart who runs the Dirt Theory channel, said he was with the couple when the horror unfolded. On Facebook, he wrote: 'I was with them when it happened and did everything in my power to save them. 'Those were the hardest 20 hours I have ever lived. The hardest decisions I have ever had to make. 'I'm sorry to all that this has affected. This is a big loss for the off road community and a bigger loss to Matthew's and Stacey's family and close friends.' In a tear-jerking obituary written for the couple, they were described as the 'heart and soul' of the off-roading community. Amid this harrowing tragedy, Jennings-Bates has warned people to proceed with caution when it comes to off-roading. Speaking to CBC, he said: 'You're not on a highway, you don't need to wear a seatbelt, but it's always good to use the safety devices that are built into the equipment to help protect you as well.'
