Christine Weir

Christine Weir's colourful and varied career has included performances in musical theatre, as a lounge singer and as an actress both on stage and on screen.  She enjoys singing mellow music such as Eva Cassidy as well as the raunchy, comedic styles of Bette Midler and the like, and is equally at home performing cabaret and musical theatre or singing background music.

Christine, a drama graduate of the Pretoria Tecnikon, and her brother Graham were the founder members of Not the Midnight Mass, which in 2009 celebrated its 21st birthday by doing a season at Peter Toeriens Theatre on the Bay, and for which all the performers were awarded the Fleur de Cap Award for Best Performer in a Musical. Between 2002 and 2005 she was the soloist in the Sun City Extravaganza “Odyssey” and during this time she also sang for the Super Bowl Lotto Car Draw and worked as a lounge singer in the Sun City Casino.  In 2007 she returned to the Sun City Casino for another season, while she held the position of lounge singer at the 12 Apostles Hotel and Spa in Cape Town in 2009 and 2010.

Other performance highlights include performing her own solo show aboard the MS Melody which sailed from Naples to Durban, a Naledi Nominated performance in Songs from the Mediterranean at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre, with with live orchestra conducted by Graham Scott.  Christine has also performed solo at high profile corporate road shows, such as the VW Road Show 2008, WesBank 3 Billion Road Show 2005, and as part of Not the Midnight Mass she performed the theme song for the Momentum Life road show in 2004.