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Title: Minstrel from the Jolly Johnson troupe, Cape Town
Subject: Entertainers, Performing arts, Amusements, ,
Description: Coon Carnival troupes gyrate through the city: Heppy Nuwe Djaar, says Achmat Adams, of the Jolly Johnson Troupe, at the Coon Carnival at Hartleyvale today. This picture was taken by staff photographer Dana Le Roux after the gaily dressed troupes had marched exuberantly through the streets of the city on their way to the carnivals at Hartleyvale and Athlone.
Identifier: islandora:15323

Title: Coon Carnival players
Subject: performers, instrumentsEntertainers--South Africa--Cape Town, Musical instruments
Description: Coon Carnival players, after an all-night street parade.
Identifier: islandora:8338

Title: Art exhibition
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, gallery, exhibition, music, San, indigenous, art, performance, child, man, instrument, Art, San--Exhibitions, Standard Bank National Arts Festival (1995 : Grahamstown, South Africa), San (African people)--South Africa--Music, Plucked instruments--South Africa, Grahamstown (South Africa)
Description: An exhibition of San art at the Grahamstown Festival, 1995. A San man sits in the exhibition area holding a g//oaci (musical instrument). Grahamstown, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:11760

Title: Clown in bus window, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Clowns--South Africa, Women circus performers--South Africa, Entertainment--South Africa, Circuses--South Africa,
Description: A young circus performer, dressed as a clown, holds a teddy bear and looks through the windscreen of a travelling bus in Parkview, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:1276

Title: Frenetic Headlines: Unxano
Subject: Dancers--Performances, Dance
Description: Production: Frenetic Headlines. Title of individual ballet: Unxano. Cast: Silomko Koyana, Dillonne Prince, Patrick Daza, Charles Mazma, Yarisha Singh, Tertia Alexander, Maxwell Rani. Choreographer: Jacki Ferreira. Venue: Baxter Theatre.
Identifier: islandora:13369

Title: Boy sits on minstrel's shoulders, Cape Town
Subject: Entertainers, Performing arts, Amusements, ,
Description: Delight is a big shoulder to sit on, a cheerful song and a whistle to blow on for this little fellow, a patient at Maitland Cottage Home for Cripple Children. He is six-year-old Bulelane Mehlomakube and the man with the big song is Boere Goosen of Nik Naks Cooning Minstrels who was one of a group of 34 Hanover Park entertainers who performed to raise money for the centre. The group is to give a repeat performance early in the New Year.
Identifier: islandora:15322

Title: The old Opera House, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Performing arts, Demolition, Urban development
Description: The old Opera House: many of Cape Town's senior citizens will remember the old Opera House which was opened in 1893 and demolished in 1937. It stood at the corner of Darling and Parliament Streets on the site presently occupied by the General Post Office and was built before the present Standard Bank Building was extended from Adderley Street through to Parliament Street (or Grave Street as it was then known). The Opera House Restaurant on the first floor was for many years one of the most popular eating-out establishments in Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17182

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