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Two illustrious songwriters and singers, Sarah Blake and Jono Tait join forces for an evening of top notch music at The Alma Café.

Tickets R2006 for 6.30pmLive Music Starts when Dinner Service is completedDinner, Dessert and Drinks availableFully Licensed, BYOB not permittedCard / Cash Payment15% Service Fee Charged

More on the Artists:

Sarah Blake is a Cape Town-born vocalist, multiinstrumentalist, and composer whose genre-blending music draws from jazz, soul, folk, and groove traditions. Whetheranchoring the rhythm on upright bass or delivering searing vocals from behind a guitar, Sarah leads with disarming charm and fierce musicality. Her live sets are emotional journeys— filled with poetic lyrics, lush harmonies, deep grooves, and spontaneous improvisation. With every performance, Sarah Blake offers more than just music—she offers presence, poetry, and groove that audiences carry long after the final note.

Out Of Place (released April 2026) is a deeply personal journey—one that explores belonging, displacement, transformation, and connection. Each song is wovenwith stories, emotions, and reflections from my own life, as well as the themes that have shaped me: resilience, communication, release, and renewal.

Singer and songwriter Jono Tait joins the party for a rare solo performance!

Three time Standard Bank Ovation Award winner, Songwriter, Guitarist and Lead Singer of legendary Cape Town band, Hatchetman, as well as session guitarist for countless projects stretching across Original Artists (Aidan Martin, We Kill Cowboys, Falling Mirror, Old Town, The Hedges), Tribute Acts (For Folk Sake, AC/DC, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Petty, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Neil Young) and Theatre, (Graham Weir, Christine Weir and the Kilts, 2 x Nick Ellenbogen’s Raiders, Angels on Horseback) had established himself as one of the most versatile and in demand young guitarists and singers in Cape Town by the onset of COVID in 2020.

The pandemic forced a radical rethink of life going forward, and more and more time became dedicated to the preservation of The Alma Cafe, leading to him taking over the business full time in June 2025.

Opportunities for stepping out and playing live have become increasingly rare occurrences; every show is treated with suitable reverence for the increasingly rare privilege of playing.

“While I love my new life as custodian of Cape Town’s legendary Live Music institution, The Alma Cafe, nothing that I’ve found beats the feeling of connecting, through songs that I have had the fortune to write, with audience who are there to appreciate the music”