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Ladies Start Searching Through Your Drawers…
The Welsh “sex bomb” is coming back as TOM JONES and it will be
anything but “cold outside”.
Tom Jones, aka Mark Davies, hails from “Tom Jones country”, born in
Pontypridd, just down the road from Tom Jones’ birthplace and a
couple of years after Tom. Mark has been singing live for almost all
his life, and those of you who recall the Neil Diamond Tribute Act
last December will also recall what a great showman he is. The
Chicago Rock Café chain describes him as one of their ‘most polished
and vocally realistic tribute acts’ and The Jumping Jaks chain of
bars’ newsletter called him ‘the best Tom Jones we’ve ever had – and
we’ve had a few!’
Tom Jones himself has been a performer for nearly fifty years and is
best known for songs such as “Delilah”, “Green Green Grass of Home”,
“Sex Bomb”, “It’s Not Unusual”, “What’s New Pussycat” and many more.
In addition to this he has also produced a prolific amount of
albums, right from his debut album released on 1May 1965 called
“Along Came Jones” featuring the breakthrough hit “It’s Not Unusual”
right through to his latest album “Tom Jones and Jools Holland”
released in September 2004 and described as “the
collaboration of the year” when Tom 'The Voice' Jones and Jools 'The
Piano' Holland released their joint foray of musical delight.
Mark sings all the hits and more, fully live. The atmosphere he
generates is electric and once you hear him perform such great
numbers, you will realise that Mark Davies is not just another Tom
Jones look-alike, Tom Jones sound alike or Tom Jones impersonator;
it is like spending an evening with the LEGEND himself. And whilst
the LEGEND was unavailable for comment at the time of going to print
I am sure he would agree.
On Saturday, 10 December, Mark will be performing the full ‘Tom
Jones’ set at the Hotel Inter-Continental in aid of Kasisi Orphange,
Manda
Hill Street Kids Project, St. Lawrence Special Needs School and Home
of Hope in Misisi Compound and ‘The House of Moses’.
Other performances, also in aid of Kasisi Orphange,
Manda Hill
Street Kids Project, St. Lawrence Special Needs School and Home of
Hope in Misisi Compound and ‘The House of Moses’,
will be on Sunday 4 December at Maramba River Lodge in Livingstone
where Mark will be kicking off this years “African Tour” at the home
of “Mosi oau Tunya” with an unplugged show; a provisional date in
Choma at Gwembe Safaris on Wednesday 7 December and ending with the
usual “Live & Unplugged” on the Green Green Grass of Lilayi Lodge
The funds raised will help make Christmas time very special for over
500 children. All the funds raised will be placed to the benefit of
the charities and will be fully accounted for and no funds
whatsoever will be deducted for administrative purposes.
It is gratifying to know that, through the continued support of the
business community, companies and public who attend these
fundraising events and donate wonderful prizes for raffles and
auctions, poor unfortunate children with no real prospects or hopes
at Christmas are remembered and their lives brightened at this
special time of the year.
Tickets and further information for the functions are available as
follows:
Christmas in the company of “Tom Jones” - Grand Gala Dinner at the
Hotel Inter-Continental, Saturday 10 December. Tickets K175 000 per
person includes a sumptuous five-course Christmas Dinner, Welcome
Drink and Corkage. Contact Margaret on 01 235 155/262 198 or 096 754
292 Emailandrews@zamnet.zm
or Mairi on 01 294 246 or 097 829 466 Email
mairi@zamnet.zm
Maramba River Lodge “Unplugged”, Saturday 3 December. Contact
Russell or Pippa on 03 324-189 or email
maramba@zamnet.zm
Live in Choma, Wednesday 7 December. Tel 03 220 169 / 220 021 / 220
119, Cell 097 803 292 / 777 719 Email
gwemsaf@coppernet.zm or
gwemsaf@zamnet.zm
Green Green Grass of Lilayi – Live and Unplugged, Sunday 11 December
Contact Kevin or Luela on 01 279 022/5 or
lilayi@zamsaf.co.zm
Advance booking for all of these functions is highly recommended as
they will be very popular events and only limited spaces are
available at all of the venues
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November
2005