Cape Town Festival announces headline acts for 10th anniversary celebrations

"We have come up with a truly remarkable line-up of unifying events in this, the tenth year of Cape Town Festival. It is hard to believe that ten years have flown by so fast," says Cape Town Festival Chairperson Ryland Fisher as he announces a glittering Cape Town Festival 2009 line-up.

As a fitting tribute for a decade of endeavouring to bring Capetonians closer together in what is viewed by some as an "incomparable" culture and heritage event, Cape Town Festival 2009's Main Festival weekend takes place between Friday 20 and Sunday 22 March at what has become a perennially popular Cape Town Festival venue of the Company's Gardens.

Billed as a diverse arts, culture and heritage event that caters for all cultural groups and ages, Mother City residents and visitors alike can look forward to a Main Festival line-up that includes jazz greats Jonathan Rubain, featuring Robbie Jansen; Alvin Dyers, featuring Leslie Kleinsmith; as well as other homegrown favourites such as Prime Circle, Coda, The Rudimentals, Tucan Tucan, The Rockets, and Alistair Izobel. Yet more jazz indulgences are to be had with the presence of rising star, 23-year-old Khayelitsha resident Nomfusi Gotyana (the only newcomer invited to perform at a recent Miriam Makeba tribute concert), as well as Mono Dullisear, Celeste Williams, Moreira Project, and Raylene.

Cape Town Festival 2009 culminates in the Cape Town Festival's flagship event, the Human Rights Day celebration on Sunday 22 March, which will include a marimba performance and cultural dancing; community artists from Atlantis, Muizenberg and Hanover Park; Kunjalo; Alistair Izobel; and The Rockets. This collaboration of headline entertainers across genres will no doubt attract a diverse cross section of festival-goers.

Main Festival Line Up - Friday 20 until Sunday 22 March:

FRIDAY - Nomfusi Gotyana; Jonathan Rubain, featuring Robbie Jansen; Coda; Celeste Williams; Alvin Dyers, featuring Leslie Kleinsmith

SATURDAY - Spiritual opening, followed by a marimba performance then a cultural dance. Hot on their heels are the following performers: Raylene; Tucan Tucan; Mono Dullisear; Moreira Project; Prime Circle

SUNDAY (Human Rights Day Concert) - Community artists from Atlantis, Muizenberg, and Hanover Park are first in the line-up; they are followed by Kunjalo; Alistair Izobel, and The Rockets.

For further information, visit the Cape Town Festival website www.capetownfestival.co.za. The festival offices can be contacted on telephone (021) 465 9042 or e-mail . All concerts are FREE to the public.