Jazz musicians Christian Scott and Dave Koz have both been nominated for Grammy awards. Christian plays the trumpet and Dave the saxophone. They share their insights about talent, music and reaching for your star.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Christian Scott and Dave Scott for talking to us…and for the music of course!
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Christian Scott
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A beat, a harmony, a melody… everyone dances to their own tune. The Children’s Radio Foundation spoke to three musicians about how they fell in love with music.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Pretty Yende, Achmat Sabera and Anele Mhlahlo for taking part in today’s show.
Achmat Sabera
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We sing along to their music, take refuge in their lyrics and let their rhythms move us. But who are the people behind the musicians and how did they start their musical journey? The Radio Workshop gets personal with Capetonian musician Mathew Moolman and New York house sensation Tortured Soul.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Mathew Moolman, and Ethan, Christian and Jordan from Tortured Soul for their insights and their music.
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Tortured Soul
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A performance artist, a chocolatier, a woman bus driver and a host of other people tell us about their jobs. Most of them had disappointments and surprises. All of them have dreams. The Children’s Radio Foundation found out that what most people start out doing is not what they end up doing.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Jitzvinger, Ncumisa Hexe, Charmaine Chetty and Nontwenhle Mchunu for being part of the show.
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And that’s all from this week’s Radio Workshop!
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Art infected the Cape Town city centre and the Children’s Radio Foundation was there to capture all the excitement, performances and creativity. Hundreds of high school pupils were led through a day of dynamic art as they experienced the Infecting the City public arts festival.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank all the artists who helped create the Infecting the City festival and who took time out to speak to us. Thank You to Malika Ndlovu and the guides of the Arts Aweh education programme. And a huge thanks to all the pupils from high schools across Cape Town whose opinion, visions and great enthusiasm made today’s show possible.
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And that’s all from this week’s Radio Workshop!
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New Year in Cape Town would not be the same without the annual Cape Carnival which takes to the streets of the city on “twede nuwe jaar” – an unofficial, second new year’s day. The history of the carnival lies in the history of slavery at the Cape and is a celebration of freedom when, for a few hours, the city belongs to the marchers and minstrels. In this week’s Radio Workshop we go behind the scenes and meet some of the people who make the carnival possible.
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Radio Workshop host Mbali Vilakazi welcomes listeners to the show.
The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAFM. Visit SAFM’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.
How the Kaapse Klopse – or Cape Carnival – began
We meet Melvin Matthews, the director of the Kaapse Klopse Carnival Association. He explains some of the features of the carnival and its place in the history of Cape Town.
Want to find out more about the Cape Carnival? Click here!
Stitching shiny satins and sequins
Each troupe that takes part in the Cape Carnival chooses the colour combination of its own uniform. These colourful costumes are produced in small workshops across the Cape Flats throughout the year. In this segment we talk with some of the women who are hard at work sewing uniforms just a few weeks before the big parade.
The ghoema man
Mr Achmat Sabera has been making ghoema drums and tamborines for the past 30 years. When slaves first marched through Cape Town at New Year they played drums made from small wine barrels. In more recent times the ghoema drum has been made of thinner, lighter wood. We visited “Boeta Achmat”, as he’s known, in his workshop where he showed us how to make a ghoema.
Ghoemas at different stages of construction
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Thanks for joining us for the Radio Workshop’s podcast. We’ve got a special holiday edition of the show for you this week, as we will be revisiting some of the most popular Radio Workshop stories from this past year.
Did you know that once upon a time, December 26th used to be known as “Boxing Day”? We’ll tell you about the holiday’s origin later in the show.
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Radio Workshop host Mbali Vilakazi welcomes listeners to the show.
The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAfm. If you live in South Africa, you can listen live on air. Tune your radio to a frequency between 104 to 107FM to find SAfm.
Community Capoeira
Capoeira is a dance-martial art developed by African slaves in Brazil. It’s extremely popular in Brazil and Angola, and is taking off across the world. Marcio Lopes has been teaching capoeira in South Africa for 9 years. Recently he decided to take Capoeira to the children of Cape Town, and it’s been a huge hit.
To find out more about the Capoeira Educational Youth Association, click here.
Audio Profile: Theo Ndindwa
When Theo Ndindwa was young, he had dreams of becoming a professional soccer player one day. Along the way, Theo found a different calling.
Theo Ndindwa and Tanya Arshamian recently launched a new dance company in Cape Town called the iKapa Dance Theatre. Read more about it here.
Learning the violin
What does it take to learn to play a classical musical instrument? Today, seventeen year-old Anele Mhahlahlo introduces us to his violin.
MIAGI (Music is a Great Investment) promotes music education for children and youth as an effective tool for social upliftment. For more information about MIAGI, visit their website.
Pretty Yende
24 year-old Pretty Yende is about to embark on a considerable journey. The young opera star got a scholarship to go study music in Milan, Italy. Today we hear from her about her journey thus far, and find out what it takes to make it as a musician.
Do you want to study music? Pretty Yende is a student at South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town. For more information about bursaries and entrance requirements, visit their website.
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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! In today’s programme we take you on a bit of a musical journey. First we check in with Freshlyground’s lead singer, Zolani Mahola, and find out what it’s like to be a musician. And then we meet a man who makes sound out of seaweed in the form of environmentally friendly kelp vuvuzelas. Stay tuned!
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Welcome to the Show!
Radio Workshop host Lesedi Mogoatlhe welcomes listeners to the show.
The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAFM. Visit SAFM’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.
A Day in the Life: Freshlyground’s Zolani Mahola
What does it take to be a musician in South Africa? Zolani tells us that it’s not all fun and games.
Want to find out more about Freshlyground? Visit their website!
Kelp Vuvuzelas
What do you think the 2010 World Cup will sound like? We’ll certainly give it a bit of our local flavour. It will most likely be a sea of vuvuzelas of all shapes and sizes, making all kinds of different sounds. Today we hear from a man who creates sound from kelp—and these instruments are not your standard plastic versions!
To find out more about Kelp Vuvuzelas, visit their website.
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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! On today’s show we’re talking about women in music. We take a look back at the life, music, and legacy of Miriam Zenzi Makeba. She died last November at the age of 76.
But first up on the show, we chat to a rising musical star. We meet Pretty Yende, the 24 year-old opera sensation from Piet Retief, Mpumalanga. Find out what inspired her to take up opera in the first place!
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Welcome to the Show!
Radio Workshop host Lesedi Mogoatlhe welcomes listeners to the show.
The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAFM. Visit SAFM’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.
Pretty Yende
24 year-old Pretty Yende is about to embark on a considerable journey. The young opera star got a scholarship to go study music in Milan, Italy. Today we hear from her about her journey thus far, and find out what it takes to make it as a musician.
Do you want to study music? Pretty Yende is a student at South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town. For more information about bursaries and entrance requirements, visit their website.
Mama Afrika
Miriam Zenzi Makeba died on November 8, 2008 while performing in a concert in Italy. Her musical career started way back in the 1950s, and carried on until her death. Makeba’s imprint on the world goes way beyond her music. Find out more!
To find out more about Miriam Makeba’s music and to see lots of photographs of the singer, visit the Miriam Makeba Trust website.
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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! In this week’s episode, we join you as you go back to school after your nice long holiday. We take a visit to the school tuck shop and see what they have on offer. Then we talk about something that many people experience at some point in their lives—bullying. We take a look at a film about bullying in a South African primary school. Then, as always, there’s this week in history. Stay tuned!
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Welcome to the Show
Radio Workshop host Lesedi Mogoatlhe welcomes listeners to the show.
The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAFM. Visit SAFM’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.
Lunchbox Bullies
If you’ve ever been bullied, you know that it can make your life very difficult. There’s a new documentary film called Lunchbox Bullies that looks at bullying in a South African primary school. Directed by Nadiva Schraibman and Nhlanhla Mthethwa, the film gives a human face to bullying, and shows how deeply it can affect young people.
Lunchbox Bullies was screened on SABC1, and at the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival. For more information about the film, contact Nadiva Schraibman at nadivas@gmail.com.
If you have a story about bullying, write us at info@radioworkshop.org. We’d love to hear from you!
What do you like to eat?
Today we’re talking about healthy eating…at your school, nogal! We’re off to the school tuck shop!
For more information on Heart and Stroke Foundation of South Africa’s tuck shop programme, visit their website.
This Week in History
Find out what important events happened this week in history!
For more information about the history of Liberia, visit the Global Connections website.
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