Saxophone Extravaganza

Rike performs as a seasoned freelance musician, playing the saxophone. With the special ambience saxophone music can add to any social event or venue, she strives to create a special atmosphere and sophisticated image as a female saxophonist. So If you're organizing a banquet, wedding or golf day and you need classy professional entertainment for your guests, or you are considering various wedding or corporate entertainment ideas, well look no further than Rike Coetzer live solo saxophonist. When you hire live music for your function, don’t settle for second best, Rike played the Centurion Lake Hotel as resident musician and did some freelance work with various pop bands; Avalanche, Scandal, Worx, Big Bands; Bonsai Big Band, SAAF Big Band, and saxophone quartets. Her repertoire ranges from classical to pop and jazz Rike regularly performed with Afrikaans singer Mathys Roets at music festivals Aardklop, KKNK and Grahamstown and recorded the live album Hy’s ons man with songs of Leonard Cohen and Koos du Plessis. She did studio work for Mathys’s other albums and for “Drie van die Bestes”. She played at the launch of Angolan singer Tony N’Guxi’s album Kazeze. In 2001 she was a semi-finalist for the Crescendo Music Competition for one of her own compositions. In 2002 she joined the Cape Town band Southern Glow and performed at the famous “Jazz Bar” at the Hilton Abu Dhabi in the UAE for two years. She also performed with the band “The Worx” at the Royal Mirage Hotel in Dubai. In 2004 she joined the Barnyard Theatre circuit and has toured with shows like Roll over Beethoven, The Piano Boys, Boogie Wonderland, Forever Young, Tonight’s the Night, Rock around the Clock and Bloubloed en Biltong.