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Travel and Tourism: New Kaleidoscope Festival ready for Prince Albert · Wander the World with Pippa Hudson

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  Speaker 1: You're with Cape Talk Listens Papaton on lunch in our
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  Speaker 1: travel segment today, we want to tell you about a
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  Speaker 1: new three day classical music and culinary experience which is
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  Speaker 1: going to be happening next month in the Karutan of
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  Speaker 1: Prince Albert. We thought we'd give you a bit of
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  Speaker 1: an early heads up in case you'd like to book
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  Speaker 1: accommodation and really make a weekend of it, because it
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  Speaker 1: would require obviously a bit of a drive from Capeton,
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  Speaker 1: but boy, it sounds like it's going to be worth it.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the Kaleidoscope Festival and it's going to blend
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  Speaker 1: world class classical and chamber music with food and wine
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  Speaker 1: inspired by the heritage of the Carew. Now the event
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  Speaker 1: runs from the twenty second to the twenty fourth of August,
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  Speaker 1: and as I said, we want to tell you about
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  Speaker 1: it now in case you want to make a plan
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  Speaker 1: to go and spend the whole weekend in Prince Albert.
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  Speaker 1: To tell us more about the Kaleidoscope Festival, it's a
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  Speaker 1: great pleasure to have the events organized in Louise Lansdowne
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  Speaker 1: joining us via zoom this afternoon. Welcome Louise. Great to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us, thank you so much. Tell us
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about where the idea of this festival
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  Speaker 1: came from, Where did it all begin, how did it
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  Speaker 1: get off the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've been thinking for a long time about how
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  Speaker 2: it's possible to bring the wonders of the carew the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of music, the fantastic food, incredible scenery, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: taking care of the future of music education and music
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  Speaker 2: in South Africa. And somehow Kaleidoscope seemed like the perfect solution.
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  Speaker 2: So that the sort of inspiration really is that in
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  Speaker 2: Prince Albert, around seven months ago at the ARCO Project,
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  Speaker 2: an outreach string teaching education program began in collaboration with
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  Speaker 2: the Prince Albert Community Trust. And this Kaleidoscope Festival is really,
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  Speaker 2: i say, a fundraising and a festival arm of the
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  Speaker 2: ARCO Project. It's there to support these eight young children
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  Speaker 2: who have just started to learn to play the violin,
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  Speaker 2: the viola, the ceo and the double bass in Prince Albert.
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  Speaker 2: And so yes, that gets it started.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: As a former attempted violinist and the mother of an
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  Speaker 1: accomplished viola player, nothing makes my heart swell with joy
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  Speaker 1: more than hearing that there are still efforts being made
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  Speaker 1: to instill the love of those instruments and to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that they are accessible to kids all over the country.
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  Speaker 1: It's not an easy thing though. Stringed instruments cost a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money. Professional teaching costs a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Sheet music costs a lot of money. Before we talk
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  Speaker 1: more about the festival, Luis, do you want to just
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  Speaker 1: expand a little bit about how much reach ARCO is
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  Speaker 1: having and how they're able to sustain that program.
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  Speaker 2: ARCO is working within two crashes within Prince Albert, Prince
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  Speaker 2: Albert Primary School and then also two other schools, Albert
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  Speaker 2: College and Quirk Fallet School, So our reaches across the
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  Speaker 2: whole of the town at the moment, and we're working
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  Speaker 2: with eighty young people between the age of four to thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: So we've really had to get little mini instruments. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: lots and lots of mini instruments which are not that
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  Speaker 2: easy to get. We brought all of them over from
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  Speaker 2: the UK because actually it's not so simple to try
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  Speaker 2: and find such little instruments for four year olds to
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  Speaker 2: feed the double bass. It's quite hard. And yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: how we are doing that. We are working unbelievably hard
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  Speaker 2: to immerse ourselves within the community and make ourselves part
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  Speaker 2: of what Prince Albert needs. And so we are planning
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  Speaker 2: if we're able to also be involved in the greater
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  Speaker 2: area le Chanka class Throom, Lanesburg, both at West, if
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  Speaker 2: we are lucky enough to be able to sustain ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a lot of funding Apple, It's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of talking to people, working with people and finding out
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  Speaker 2: really what people need. And I suppose our biggest thing
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  Speaker 2: that maybe has what we have learned is that we
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  Speaker 2: are connecting with people with their own music.
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  Speaker 3: We are not.
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  Speaker 2: Teaching the young kids Western art music. We are teaching them.
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  Speaker 1: Careu music that sounds incredible. Tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more about the kind of music you're working with, and
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  Speaker 1: then I promise we will get back to the festival information.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just so intrigued by this story. What sort
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  Speaker 1: of music are you are you teaching?
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  Speaker 2: So we are we are teaching Afrikaans songs, children's songs.
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  Speaker 2: I've done a lot of reading in the Fakhas Sung
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  Speaker 2: Bundle and connecting with teachers finding out which songs the
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  Speaker 2: kids do connect with. And although we're teaching, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what one could call western instruments. The music we are
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  Speaker 2: teaching is totally South African, so that is really what
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  Speaker 2: we want to be relevant to the young people that
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  Speaker 2: we're teaching and want to connect with them in their
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  Speaker 2: own culture and their own way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've done a beautiful job of selling the why
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  Speaker 1: this festival is so worth supporting. Now let's tell everybody
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  Speaker 1: the other part of the story, which is all the
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  Speaker 1: wonderful things they can experience if they come through to
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  Speaker 1: Prince Albert at the end of August. Just for anybody
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  Speaker 1: who's come in midway to this conversation, my guest joining
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  Speaker 1: us via Zoom is Louise Lansdowne, organizer of the Kaleidoscope Festival,
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  Speaker 1: which will be taking place in Prince Albert from the
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  Speaker 1: twenty second to the twenty fourth of August. It's about music,
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  Speaker 1: it's about food, it's about celebrating the amazing, beautiful scenic
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  Speaker 1: location of Prince Albert. Let's delve into some of those.
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  Speaker 1: Louise tell us a little bit more about some of
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  Speaker 1: the highlights on the festival program.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, actually we are starting off if you want to
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  Speaker 2: drive in from Cape Ton and gate in for lunchtime.
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  Speaker 2: The first concert is the four Arca Youth Orchestras, Little
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  Speaker 2: string Orchestras, and they're playing a program of wonderful South
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  Speaker 2: African music. This is going to be held at the
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  Speaker 2: headquarters of the Prince Albert Community Trust known as the
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  Speaker 2: Pop Center. So that's the first, the first highlight to
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  Speaker 2: start off the festival. In the evening, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be playing a concert with Hendrik Hoffmer, wonderful composer and
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  Speaker 2: pianist and mezzo soprano Minette Detroit, a concert of songs
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  Speaker 2: for viola jano and mezzo soprano. So go and have
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  Speaker 2: a look at the program. Before that, you can have
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  Speaker 2: some fantastic pizza at the long Hase just across the
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  Speaker 2: road from the showroom. On Saturday morning, the twenty third
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  Speaker 2: of August, head into the Swatberg Pass at UNESCO World
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  Speaker 2: Heritage Site and you're going to hear a fantastic program
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  Speaker 2: on what's called the dance floor, surrounded by incredible mam.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we just lost the signal at the crucial moment.
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  Speaker 1: They have a I want to know wherein what the
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  Speaker 1: dance floor is in the Swatberg Past.
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  Speaker 2: Reddits for everybody and you can come and hear.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Louise I'm so sorry the signal broke up of
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  Speaker 1: when you said on the Saturday you need to head
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  Speaker 1: into the Swartburg Pass to hear music performed on the
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  Speaker 1: dance floor, and then it cut out right at the
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  Speaker 1: cliffhanger of what the dance floor is. Won't you just sit,
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  Speaker 1: take a step back and start from there please?
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  Speaker 2: Sure? Of course, the dance floor is a natural amphitheater
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  Speaker 2: within the Swartberg Pass. It's about a five minute drive
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  Speaker 2: from Prince Albert and the Lazy Lizard, a fantastic restaurant
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  Speaker 2: on the edge of town, is going to be making
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  Speaker 2: a fabulous breakfast for everybody, and you'll be entertained to
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  Speaker 2: the sound of four violas and a double bass on
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  Speaker 2: this dance floor. We'll have chairs for everybody, no heaters,
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  Speaker 2: but I would highly recommend it. If you're still hungry
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  Speaker 2: and hungry for more music and food, you need to
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  Speaker 2: head down to the Yellow House next where the young
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  Speaker 2: musicians from the Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Orchestra their Brass Quintete,
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  Speaker 2: will be playing, accompanied by pizza and wine. So don't
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  Speaker 2: miss it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so sorry about the quality of the zoom
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  Speaker 1: line that we really are struggling with at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, were sorry Louise to pause you there?
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  Speaker 1: We lost the line again, and I'm wondering if it
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  Speaker 1: might not be worth trying to call Louise instead of
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  Speaker 1: that's possible. I believe the line on zoom is better
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  Speaker 1: than the line on the phone, so we'll have to
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  Speaker 1: just struggle on and hope it doesn't happen too often. Louise,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned the cape Ton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Brass section
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  Speaker 1: playing at the Yellow Horse. What came after that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, actually it's the Yellow House House. After that, no problem,
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  Speaker 2: everyone is allowed to go and have a little sleep
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  Speaker 2: and arrest and at five pm there's a cheese and
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  Speaker 2: wine and a fantastic concert with the Cape Town Philharmonic
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  Speaker 2: Youth Orchestra string quartet playing and all African program of music. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: one of their players, a young violinist and accordionist, is
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  Speaker 2: going to be playing one of his own compositions, so
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely not to be missed.
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  Speaker 1: And if you still all right, I think we need to.
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid called time on this line, which is getting
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  Speaker 1: worse by the minute. I am so so sorry to
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  Speaker 1: have to cut that one short because I was really
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  Speaker 1: enjoying listening to what sounds like an absolutely phenomenal program.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm going to do is just call up the
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  Speaker 1: festival website, which is Kaleidoscope Festival dot co dot z,
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  Speaker 1: and see whether we can just find the details of
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  Speaker 1: the remaining events to share with you that are going
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  Speaker 1: to keep you entertained through the weekend. But I'm so
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  Speaker 1: so sorry about the quality of that line letting us down.
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  Speaker 1: As it's done, I can see my producer is trying
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  Speaker 1: to put in a phone call and just see if
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  Speaker 1: we can pick up the last few details. But while
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  Speaker 1: she's trying to connect my phone, let me just share
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  Speaker 1: with you a couple of the ins and arts that
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  Speaker 1: we haven't mentioned yet. Firstly, well to repeat the dates.
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  Speaker 1: This has happening twenty two to twenty four August in
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  Speaker 1: the town of Prince Albert. You need to get onto
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  Speaker 1: the N one drive all the way past Mikey, Spontane
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  Speaker 1: and Lanesburg in that area and beyond, and then you'll
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  Speaker 1: hang a right at some point and make your way
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  Speaker 1: down to Prince Albert to immerse yourself in this program.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know what's sounding nice of the music
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  Speaker 1: or the food, or better still, the combination of the two.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, we get to try and just limp along
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  Speaker 1: on the phone and hope that the phone line does
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit prouder than the zoom line was
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  Speaker 1: doing there. So once again Louise Lansdowne, organizer of the
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  Speaker 1: Kaleidoscope Festival, joining me now by phone we got to
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  Speaker 1: the cheese and wine concert, the string quartet, the youngster
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  Speaker 1: who is a performing his own composition which is going
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  Speaker 1: to be amazing. Louise, Sorry, won't you pick it up
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  Speaker 1: from there? Thanks?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, of course I will. Sorry, I'm stuck in tuscally
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  Speaker 3: and Ealy teaching.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what a terrible place to be.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, absolutely yes. So this a string cortet concert
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  Speaker 3: also has some fantastic South African music by Macalekapang, and
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  Speaker 3: there's some wonderful string quarteta arrangements by South African violinist
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  Speaker 3: Samson Diamond. And then if you're not full up with
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  Speaker 3: food and music, you need to keep going and go
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  Speaker 3: straight to the Swatburg Hotels in the center of Prince Albert,
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  Speaker 3: where you can get a fantastic career inspired dinner followed
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  Speaker 3: by an amazing concert with Nick Turner and Skolcubert abtualely
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  Speaker 3: named Breakfast in Cape Town, lunch in New York and
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  Speaker 3: dinner in Prince Albert, so not to be missed. And
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  Speaker 3: if you've still got more energy after that, we're having
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  Speaker 3: a jamming session in the Long Hate. So if everyone
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  Speaker 3: wants to bring their instruments, just come and come and play,
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  Speaker 3: Come and join us. We're all going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 3: towering on into the to the late night to finish
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  Speaker 3: off the festival. The next morning we have got we're
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  Speaker 3: joining actually the church service in the New Apostolic Church
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  Speaker 3: in North End of Prince Albert, and our young Cawn
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  Speaker 3: Philharmonic Youth orchestra musicians will be playing some of their
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  Speaker 3: own music but also all of the hymns in the
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  Speaker 3: New Apatholic Church at nine a m. So for the
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  Speaker 3: early rises and the final concert and lunch of the
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  Speaker 3: of the festival. It's it's eleven o'clock in what is
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  Speaker 3: known as the Old Central Hotel. We call it Garfield's
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  Speaker 3: Places because Garfield lives there now and you're you're going
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  Speaker 3: to hear the concert called Long Walk to Freedom. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this is all South African music some of it from
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  Speaker 3: World Premiers Music via the Seven Bosh based composer Arthur Fader,
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  Speaker 3: Grant mccachon, Young Hendrik Harley and Montage Marcebi. And we're
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  Speaker 3: actually just going to finish off the concert with a
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  Speaker 3: couple of crazy PiZZ solo numbers just to to spice
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the concert and are followed by
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  Speaker 3: sump chirst Meil inspired by Medieva at Journey's restaurant which
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  Speaker 3: is next door. So and by that it's time. If
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  Speaker 3: you're not exhausted, I've not gone my job.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like the most phenomenal program in
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  Speaker 1: Louise lovely to have something to look forward to as
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  Speaker 1: we drag ourselves through the final weeks of winter. It's
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  Speaker 1: always lovely to be able to think, in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks time, I'll be able to enjoy X, Y
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  Speaker 1: or Z. And in this case, we want you to say,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be going to Prince Albert for the Kaleidoscope Festival.
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  Speaker 1: Let's quickly chat about booking. Is it a case of
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  Speaker 1: your book one ticket to enjoy the entire experience or
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  Speaker 1: do you book for each individual component.
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  Speaker 3: Louise, I would love to have done and a book
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  Speaker 3: for the entire experience, but this was very tricky on cricket,
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  Speaker 3: so it's a book for each one. And if you
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  Speaker 3: go on to cricket, you can just pick on each
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  Speaker 3: event and you prick on tickets and you can vent
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  Speaker 3: see if you want to eat, you can choose that.
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  Speaker 3: Otherwise you can just buy a concert ticket or you
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  Speaker 3: can buy both, and so it's super easy to follow.
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  Speaker 3: Our website has got gorgeous pictures of all of the
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  Speaker 3: burnies just to get you extra excitement. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: we are particularly grateful to west Grow and to the
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  Speaker 3: Prince Albert community. Trust to you. We are collaborating with
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  Speaker 3: very deeply on the festival.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic to hear.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, if you're going to go through and make a
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  Speaker 1: weekend of it, also just google and check out some
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  Speaker 1: of the many many hospitality options in Prince all but
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  Speaker 1: if you're looking for a place to stay for the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: but most importantly you want to be on Kaleidoscope Festival
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  Speaker 1: dot co dot z to sort of get a sense
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  Speaker 1: of the program, identify which bits you want to attend,
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  Speaker 1: and then you move over to cicket to book your
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  Speaker 1: individual tickets. Luise, it sounds like you have put together
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  Speaker 1: the most wonderful program of works and eats, and I
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  Speaker 1: hope that this event is going to be really well
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  Speaker 1: supported because of what you've told us, particularly about where
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  Speaker 1: that funding is going to keep the musical education moving
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  Speaker 1: forward in the town. So we hope that the event
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a huge success and look forward
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  Speaker 1: to a conversation about the growth and expansion of ARCO
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  Speaker 1: and its activities. And who knows, you know, these could
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  Speaker 1: be the musicians who one day are sitting in the orchestra,
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  Speaker 1: put at the artscape entertaining us for the ballet or
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  Speaker 1: the opera or whatever it is that we are looking to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that is the big goal, the big dream, Louise,
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  Speaker 1: inclosing to allow these children to dream of things like
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  Speaker 1: that being possible for them.
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  Speaker 3: That is the absolute hope that they will be the
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  Speaker 3: teachers and the performers of the future.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for all the work that is going
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  Speaker 1: into making that possible for them. That was Louise Landsdowne
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  Speaker 1: joining us on the line. Apologies for the communication difficulties
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon, but I think we managed to convey what
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  Speaker 1: a very exciting program it is. Both musically and in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the edible offerings twenty two to twenty four
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  Speaker 1: August in Prince Albert and please book your tickets on
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  Speaker 1: cicket