Following the success of last year’s event, Brett Bailey and Third World Bunfight will present The Routes of Sound 2025 at Spier Wine Farm from 26 to 28 September 2025.
Music has always had its place at Spier and as a bite-sized sonic experience, The Routes of Sound highlights a compelling mix of exceptional and original performers.
This year’s line-up includes Jak Tomas, Giuliette Price, Luh’ra, Taleswapper, Ntokozo Zwane and Odwa Bongo. In addition to the diverse performances, guests will also be able to enjoy award-winning wines from Spier’s Creative Block collection as they meander between acoustic sets.
The concept plays on the dual meaning of routes and roots: the journey toward the discovery and joy of sound in its rawest form – stripped down, unplugged and personal. For those drawn to storytelling through song, this promises an evocative, enriching night of lyrical exploration with some wonderful poetic voices in the line up. Groups of 30 will rotate along two paths that move through a selection of Spier’s most atmospheric spaces ranging from the historic Manor House and the Old Wine Cellar to the Cowshed and other cosy lounges and nooks. The experience will culminate in a concert with The Herbie Tsoaeli Quintet featuring Herbie on bass and vocals and Buddy Wells on sax.
To ease into the experience, early dinner bookings at the recently opened Veld Restaurant or at Vada Smokehouse & Bakery are encouraged. Those wishing to stay over at the new Spier Hotel can enquire further through E reservations@spier.co.za.
WHAT: The Routes of Sound 2025
WHERE: Spier Wine Farm, R310 Baden Powell Dr, Stellenbosch, 7603
WHEN: Friday 26 and Saturday 27 September 2025 at 7:30pm, and on Sunday 28 September at 3pm
BOOKING: Tickets cost R300 per person via Webtickets and include wine tastings.
INFO: VISIT
About Spier and art, and Brett Baily / Third World Bunfight
Art, like food and wine, is best shared, which is why Spier is such an enthusiastic supporter of African artists and their creations. Housing one of the largest contemporary art collections in the country, Spier believes in the power of the visual and performing arts to teach and inspire, encouraging us all to engage openly with our world and each other. With such a thriving local artistic community and rich cultural heritage, Spier is excited about the future of South African art. For more information, visit www.spier.co.za.
Brett Bailey is a South African playwright, designer, director, installation artist, and the artistic director of the performance company THIRD WORLD BUNFIGHT. His iconoclastic theatrical works, which interrogate the dynamics of the post-colonial world, include the musical dramas BIG DADA, IPI ZOMBI?, iMUMBO JUMBO, ORFEUS, SAMSON and FAUSTX: a radical reworking of Verdi’s opera MACBETH; and the performance installations BLOOD DIAMONDS: TERMINAL, EXHIBIT A, EXHIBIT B, and SANCTUARY. Many of his works have played across Europe, Australia and Africa, and in the USA, Latin America and Asia, and have won several awards, including a gold medal for design at the Prague Quadrennial (2007). He has a BA in drama and English from the University of Cape Town, and a post graduate diploma in performance studies from Das Arts (now DAS Theatre), Amsterdam (2004). He directed the opening show at the World Summit on Arts and Culture in Johannesburg (2009), and from 2006-2011 the opening shows at the Harare International Festival of the Arts. From 2008-2011 he was curator of South Africa’s only public arts festival, ‘Infecting the City’, in Cape Town. He was the chairperson of the Curatorial Committee of South Africa’s National Arts Festival from 2016-2020. In 2014 he wrote the International Theatre Institute’s World Theatre Day UNESCO.He headed the jury of the Prague Quadrennial (2011); was a juror on the International Theatre Institute’s Music Theatre Now competition (2012/13), and the chairperson of the jury of the same competition in 2016/16; and a juror of the Tokyo Festival’s World Theatre Competition in 2019. He has run extended workshop sessions on his methodology in Ireland, Italy, the USA and Athens, and in 2018 he curated a 2-month component of the MA programme at DAS Theatre, Amsterdam. In 2019 he was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French government.
