The Friends of the Durban Botanic Gardens welcome Christopher Duigan to the Visitors Centre in the Botanic Gardens for an indoor piano recital in the NBS Education Hall on November 9 at 14h30.

Christopher will entertain audiences with a new programme taken from his recently-recorded CD, Picnic Piano Encore!. This classical and popular selection includes Rondo all Turca, Für Elise, Ritual Fire Dance plus Fats Waller's Aligator Crawl, Frog Legs Rag, I've Got Rhythm, a tango from La Cumparsita and several more up tempo numbers.

Claire Wright will play a few duets with Christopher. A promising young student of Isabella Stengel who performs regularly at the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg, she is studying for her BMus Degree through UNISA.

Tickets R40 (R30 senior citizens, students and Friends of the Gardens) available through Computicket, from the Info Centre in the Gardens and at the door at 14h00. Tea and light refreshments will be on sale.

Further information from the Info Centre on 031 309 1170.