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Photo: Tembela Bohle

Juni/Juli 2026 und März/April 2027

Roots of Music - MusicalDiversity

Benefit Concert

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About Roots of Music

The Little Giants performing outdoors in the parish garden
Little Giants, © Mila Perret Faggianelli

Project

Roots of Music – Musical Diversity is the second exchange between Musikschule Soest and IMAD in Cape Town, continuing a partnership that has grown for more than a decade. Arbeit und Leben NRW is the implementing organisation for the exchange. It builds on Sounds of Sustainability (2020), the remote production Double Rainbow, and the German return visit in 2022. After the South African delegation visited Soest in June/July 2026, preparations are underway for the return visit to Cape Town in March/April 2027. There, a joint project big band will rehearse, lead workshops, and tour the Western Cape, culminating in a concert at Artscape Theatre Centre.

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This website gives the growing archive of photographs, videos, and experiences from Cape Town and Soest a shared home. It preserves the collaboration between South Africa and Germany while showing why international exchange and education matter for democratic development and cooperation.

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