Africa Music Safari and Community Aid

On 28 March our first information session went ahead with our special guest, Gemma Sisia, the founder of St Judes school in Tanzania. We had a time slot with her during her hectic Australian publicity tour. We had a good turnout considering the short notice and Gemma and her assistant were soon headed for airport. Gemma precorded an interview with Stani and this was then fed into the afternnoon music show.

Visit this page for some pictures form the day..

Gemma Sisia 9St Judes):  Stani Goma (PBS Radio):  Brent McCunn (Passport Travel):

Gemma recording interview segment

 

Question Time

Click Picture to download mp3 file of interview.

Community Aid:

Another highlight of the trip is the opportunity to put something back in local community by staying at an existing Community Program. Fighting poverty through education is the motto of the School of St Jude. The school was opened in 2002 by Gemma Rice (now Gemma Sisia), who made an incredible transition form a sheep farm in Australia, in Northern Tanzania with the help of her family, friends and local Rotary Club. You may recall her story was the subject matter for one episode of the ABC programme 'Australian Story'.

More on St Judes School.

Tour Itineraries:

We have two options for our tour. This allows people to judge the amount of time they have available for this tour. Not everyone can take the time off to do the whole tour.

1) Travel from Australia to Capetown, then Johannesburg and on to East Africa.

2) Start with the stopover in Johannesburg (Cape Town participants join also) and then on to East Africa

Johannesburg and East Africa

The core tour programme is;

• Johannesburg and Soweto
  Nairobi
• East African Safari
• Community Aid visit

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Cape Town Johannesburg and East Africa

For those with more time available you can add a comprehensive time in Cape Town, then the remaining core tour.

• Cape town
• Johannesburg and Soweto
  Nairobi
• East African Safari
• Community Aid visit

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Disclaimer

Musicians are often away on tour and the music scene is constantly changing. It’s almost impossible to guarantee that a preferred style of music will definitely be accessed during the tour. However, if you’re flexible and keep an open mind, you will be pleasantly surprised