MTV concert in Newtown on Saturday

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Arts Alive music concert in Newtown Dance the day away at the MTV Alert with Motorola concert at Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown on Saturday. September 11, 2006 By Lucky Sindane IT'S summer time! Fill your cooler boxes, put on your dancing shoes and make your way to the MTV Alert with Motorola music concert at the Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown on Saturday, 16 September. The music concert is part of City's Arts Alive festival. The concert kicks off at 10pm and promises to feature Joburg's top artists from hip-hop and jazz to kwaito and rock. The event "can claim to represent the province's diversity, attitude and sheer-star power", according to a media release from the Arts Alive organisers. The Parlotones are on the bill of the Arts Alive concert in Newtown, MTV Alert with Motorola Music lovers were given a chance to choose their favourite artists to feature in the concert either by SMS-ing or by visiting the MTV Base website. "I think music fans are going to be intrigued to see what happens when the public is given the power to choose the line-up," said Alex Okosi, vice-president and general manager for MTV networks Africa. The star-studded event will feature the Parlotones, Dirty Skirts, Cassette, 985, Pro Kid, Springbok Nude Girls, Prime Circle, Jozi and Zola. "Home-grown rock plays an important part in South African popular culture and this is the first time that MTV base has included this genre in one of our events," said Okosi, adding "it will be great to see how rock fares vs urban genres like rap and hip-hop". Footage from the concert will also feature on MTV Base. Tickets for the concert are selling at Computicket for R60. Permission to use web site material Publishers may use material from this site free of charge, as long as: Credit is given to either the "City of Johannesburg website (www.joburg.org.za)" or to "Johannesburg News Agency (www.joburg.org.za)"; If the article is used online, a link is provided to the original article on this website; The name of the article's author is acknowledged; The webmaster is informed of how and where the material is used (fill in this brief online form). Johannesburg News Agency is operated by BIG Media at 011-484-1400 Print this Page E-mail this article to a friend Help using Joburg.org.za