The Jonathan Rubain Band, Cape Town’s much-loved jazz ensemble, is launching their debut album Happy People on Friday 26 March at a concert to be held in the AFM Goodwood main auditorium at 19:30.

Sunny afternoons amid the bushveld’s beauty of the North-west means only one thing: it’s time for the 27th annual Thabazimbi Game and Tourism Expo from 29 April to 1 May. Like previous years it promises to be a festive affair with loads of top notch artists and exciting activities to look forward too.

Leading South African contemporary integrated dance initiative, the award-winning Remix Dance Company, celebrates its 10th anniversary and its new home at the Baxter Theatre Centre with five performances only of a brand new production, Lovaffair, from March 30 until April 3 at 8pm.

OmmiBerg ‘Round the Rock 2010’ hits the Paarl Wine Route on Saturday March 13th.  A unique opportunity to taste the first of the 2010 vintage across the route - unfiltered and straight from the tank in the middle of harvest time - the event pairs the wines with creative adaptations of the traditional onion tart; along with other unusual gourmet offerings.

The Oude Libertas Amphitheatre in Stellenbosch never ceases to amaze, with creative and vibrant new productions. From 18-20 March this year, in collaboration with the Rupert Music Foundation, Oude Libertas will produce an a capella version of Handel’s much-loved Messiah. Media Manager for the Oude Libertas Heinrich von Wielligh reports on this mammoth undertaking, a first for South Africa.