Trinity Church Choir hosts Charity Dinner Concert

Trinity Church Choir is upping the ante this Saturday September 1, 2018 when it hosts its fabled Charity Dinner Concert at Tlotlo Hotel and Conference Centre from 7PM until late. Choir Conductor, Dr Tefo Bubi, a self-taught product of the church, who grew up in a family of music and learnt from diverse church elders as well as drunk from the fountain of wisdom of Mma (Denise) Gaboutlweloe’s calibre, tells Sun Vibe that this year’s concert is “one of a kind”. Making a return after last year’s hiatus occasioned by celebration of the church’s golden jubilee, this year’s edition promises to break new grounds with a little something that’s never been done in all the five Synods of United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA). Accompanied by Oarabile Bafitlhile of the famed Btv’s Saturday programme, Melodi ya Dinoto also a Music Director and Choir Master at Sedibeng church choir in Molepolole, Dr. Bubi waxed lyrical about the planned Saturday’s music and food affair, whose ticket are already on sale. It is a total deviation from the last three editions, not only musically, but also in arrangement. Patrons can brace for a night of beautiful UCCSA songs selected from the Church’s Hymn Book, ‘Dihela’. Normally, these hymns are sung without any accompaniment, but this year Dr. Bubi says they’ve picked 15 songs and orchestrated them. “It’s the first project ever done, not even South Africa has done it. We are the first to do it in UCCSA space,” he enthused. The orchestra is two-fold. Even as they want songs sung properly, the aim is also to cultivate the ground so that eventually Botswana can have an Orchestra of its own. The Church Choir has enlisted some teachers and exceptional students who can do music from random schools around Gaborone to be part of the 24 member Orchestra, which will join the 50-member Trinity Church Choir on stage. Dr. Bubi says friends from South Africa have also been invited to join the Orchestra. To cap it all, on the 15th of September, the Church Choir will do a live recording of all the hymns that were performed during the dinner concert in a one-in-a lifetime church service at Trinity Church in Gaborone’s Main Mall. Thereafter these will be cut into CDs and DVDs. Proceeds from the dinner concert go towards helping the less privileged in society, this being one of the church’s central role – to show compassion and altruism alongside winning souls to the Lord.