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After a sold out show last time at café Roux, with a standing ovation, this wonderful, highly entertaining theatrical show returns to Cape Town’s best music venue.

Not another tribute show! you groan. And it isn’t!

SIN AND SALVATION – The Story of Johnny Cash delves into the character of one of the most charismatic and controversial artists in American music.

Born into a God-fearing, cotton-farming family in the Great Depression, Johnny Cash went from being a country singer to an artist who embraced all cultures in the USA, wearing black as a symbol of his compassion for the downtrodden, particularly the Native Americans, with whom he identified.

However, his demons led him frequently down paths of self-destruction and brushes with the law, fuelled by drugs and alcohol. His legendary concerts in Folsom Prison and San Quentin show him empathising with the inmates with songs of “sin and salvation”, often with humour. His second wife, June Carter, provided the support which enabled the singer to combat most of his demons. Music producer Rick Rubin provided Cash with a new lease on life when he recorded album after album of new songs, unlikely covers and long forgotten pieces.

Singer and musician JAMIE JUPITER has loved the music and personality of Johnny Cash since he was a child when he purchased an LP on a school fête. He has honed his performance as Cash over the years. Few singers have a voice as suited to sing Johnny Cash songs as Jamie.

JONNY BLUNDELL, one of South Africa’s finest music producers and a blues guitarist of note, is the musical director of the show, who performs along with double bassist and sound wizard Daniel Franks and multi-instrumentalist and sublimely talented singer Sarah McArthur.

NIGEL VERMAAS, who leaves his radio studio to direct the show, has collaborated with Jonny on the script. Yes, these four musicians act. “I am constantly amazed”, says Nigel, “at how these musicians – all of them brilliant on their instruments – have also managed to bring the characters in Johnny Cash’s story to life”.“Of course”, says Jonny Blundell, “Cash fans will want to hear I WALK THE LINE, RING OF FIRE, GHOST RIDERS and so on and they will – Jamie delivers that big time – but there is so much more to Johnny Cash. And we aim to show that”.

SIN AND SALVATION is a dynamic staging of the highs and lows of Johnny Cash’s life – with four performers who can deliver those foot-stomping hits, as well as delicate – and occasionally comic – ballads that aim to delight Cash fans, and create new ones.

BOOKING NOTES

If you can’t get the table configuration you want and end up booking seats on different tables as a result, please do so under the same email address and we’ll automatically put you together on one table. In fact, any seats booked under the same email address we will assume are together and arrange seating at one table. If this is not the case, however, or if you are booking with friends under different email addresses, just let us know and we’ll make a plan to seat you together. If the event appears sold-out, or you want to add to an existing booking, the same applies - just drop us an email to events@caferoux.co.za and we’ll do our best to make a plan!

If you struggle with the booking or online payment process, or want to swap tables, we can’t help with that - so please contact Quicket on support@quicket.co.za. And, if you can’t make the show and want to try to resell your tickets, please make use of Quicket’s secondary ticket sale option online - or let us know and we’ll try to sell your tickets on the door.

DOORS OPEN AT 6PM, SHOW STARTS AT 7:30PM