July 29, 2025 • 15 mins
Pippa Hudson speaks to Louise Lansdown, the organiser of the new three-day classical musical and culinary experience, Kaleidoscope Festival, in Prince Albert next month. The Kaleidoscope Festival 2025 takes place from August 22 to August 24, and tickets are available on Quicket.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're with Cape Talk Listens Papaton on lunch in our
travel segment today, we want to tell you about a
new three day classical music and culinary experience which is
going to be happening next month in the Karutan of
Prince Albert. We thought we'd give you a bit of
an early heads up in case you'd like to book
accommodation and really make a weekend of it, because it
(00:23):
would require obviously a bit of a drive from Capeton,
but boy, it sounds like it's going to be worth it.
It's called the Kaleidoscope Festival and it's going to blend
world class classical and chamber music with food and wine
inspired by the heritage of the Carew. Now the event
runs from the twenty second to the twenty fourth of August,
and as I said, we want to tell you about
it now in case you want to make a plan
(00:44):
to go and spend the whole weekend in Prince Albert.
To tell us more about the Kaleidoscope Festival, it's a
great pleasure to have the events organized in Louise Lansdowne
joining us via zoom this afternoon. Welcome Louise. Great to
have you with us, thank you so much. Tell us
a little bit about where the idea of this festival
came from, Where did it all begin, how did it
get off the ground.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, I've been thinking for a long time about how
it's possible to bring the wonders of the carew the
beauty of music, the fantastic food, incredible scenery, and I'm
taking care of the future of music education and music
(01:25):
in South Africa. And somehow Kaleidoscope seemed like the perfect solution.
So that the sort of inspiration really is that in
Prince Albert, around seven months ago at the ARCO Project,
an outreach string teaching education program began in collaboration with
(01:46):
the Prince Albert Community Trust. And this Kaleidoscope Festival is really,
i say, a fundraising and a festival arm of the
ARCO Project. It's there to support these eight young children
who have just started to learn to play the violin,
the viola, the ceo and the double bass in Prince Albert.
(02:08):
And so yes, that gets it started.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
As a former attempted violinist and the mother of an
accomplished viola player, nothing makes my heart swell with joy
more than hearing that there are still efforts being made
to instill the love of those instruments and to make
sure that they are accessible to kids all over the country.
It's not an easy thing though. Stringed instruments cost a
lot of money. Professional teaching costs a lot of money.
(02:33):
Sheet music costs a lot of money. Before we talk
more about the festival, Luis, do you want to just
expand a little bit about how much reach ARCO is
having and how they're able to sustain that program.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
ARCO is working within two crashes within Prince Albert, Prince
Albert Primary School and then also two other schools, Albert
College and Quirk Fallet School, So our reaches across the
whole of the town at the moment, and we're working
with eighty young people between the age of four to thirteen.
(03:08):
So we've really had to get little mini instruments. Yeah,
lots and lots of mini instruments which are not that
easy to get. We brought all of them over from
the UK because actually it's not so simple to try
and find such little instruments for four year olds to
feed the double bass. It's quite hard. And yeah, so
(03:30):
how we are doing that. We are working unbelievably hard
to immerse ourselves within the community and make ourselves part
of what Prince Albert needs. And so we are planning
if we're able to also be involved in the greater
area le Chanka class Throom, Lanesburg, both at West, if
(03:55):
we are lucky enough to be able to sustain ourselves.
So it's a lot of funding Apple, It's a lot
of talking to people, working with people and finding out
really what people need. And I suppose our biggest thing
that maybe has what we have learned is that we
are connecting with people with their own music.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We are not.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Teaching the young kids Western art music. We are teaching them.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Careu music that sounds incredible. Tell us a little bit
more about the kind of music you're working with, and
then I promise we will get back to the festival information.
But I'm just so intrigued by this story. What sort
of music are you are you teaching?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So we are we are teaching Afrikaans songs, children's songs.
I've done a lot of reading in the Fakhas Sung
Bundle and connecting with teachers finding out which songs the
kids do connect with. And although we're teaching, you know,
what one could call western instruments. The music we are
(04:58):
teaching is totally South African, so that is really what
we want to be relevant to the young people that
we're teaching and want to connect with them in their
own culture and their own way.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, you've done a beautiful job of selling the why
this festival is so worth supporting. Now let's tell everybody
the other part of the story, which is all the
wonderful things they can experience if they come through to
Prince Albert at the end of August. Just for anybody
who's come in midway to this conversation, my guest joining
us via Zoom is Louise Lansdowne, organizer of the Kaleidoscope Festival,
(05:34):
which will be taking place in Prince Albert from the
twenty second to the twenty fourth of August. It's about music,
it's about food, it's about celebrating the amazing, beautiful scenic
location of Prince Albert. Let's delve into some of those.
Louise tell us a little bit more about some of
the highlights on the festival program.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Sure, actually we are starting off if you want to
drive in from Cape Ton and gate in for lunchtime.
The first concert is the four Arca Youth Orchestras, Little
string Orchestras, and they're playing a program of wonderful South
African music. This is going to be held at the
headquarters of the Prince Albert Community Trust known as the
Pop Center. So that's the first, the first highlight to
(06:14):
start off the festival. In the evening, I'm going to
be playing a concert with Hendrik Hoffmer, wonderful composer and
pianist and mezzo soprano Minette Detroit, a concert of songs
for viola jano and mezzo soprano. So go and have
a look at the program. Before that, you can have
(06:36):
some fantastic pizza at the long Hase just across the
road from the showroom. On Saturday morning, the twenty third
of August, head into the Swatberg Pass at UNESCO World
Heritage Site and you're going to hear a fantastic program
on what's called the dance floor, surrounded by incredible mam.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh, we just lost the signal at the crucial moment.
They have a I want to know wherein what the
dance floor is in the Swatberg Past.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Reddits for everybody and you can come and hear.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh Louise I'm so sorry the signal broke up of
when you said on the Saturday you need to head
into the Swartburg Pass to hear music performed on the
dance floor, and then it cut out right at the
cliffhanger of what the dance floor is. Won't you just sit,
take a step back and start from there please?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Sure? Of course, the dance floor is a natural amphitheater
within the Swartberg Pass. It's about a five minute drive
from Prince Albert and the Lazy Lizard, a fantastic restaurant
on the edge of town, is going to be making
a fabulous breakfast for everybody, and you'll be entertained to
(07:42):
the sound of four violas and a double bass on
this dance floor. We'll have chairs for everybody, no heaters,
but I would highly recommend it. If you're still hungry
and hungry for more music and food, you need to
head down to the Yellow House next where the young
musicians from the Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Orchestra their Brass Quintete,
(08:05):
will be playing, accompanied by pizza and wine. So don't
miss it.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh, I'm so sorry about the quality of the zoom
line that we really are struggling with at the moment,
I don't know, were sorry Louise to pause you there?
We lost the line again, and I'm wondering if it
might not be worth trying to call Louise instead of
that's possible. I believe the line on zoom is better
than the line on the phone, so we'll have to
just struggle on and hope it doesn't happen too often. Louise,
(08:35):
you mentioned the cape Ton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Brass section
playing at the Yellow Horse. What came after that?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yes, actually it's the Yellow House House. After that, no problem,
everyone is allowed to go and have a little sleep
and arrest and at five pm there's a cheese and
wine and a fantastic concert with the Cape Town Philharmonic
Youth Orchestra string quartet playing and all African program of music. Actually,
(09:04):
one of their players, a young violinist and accordionist, is
going to be playing one of his own compositions, so
it's definitely not to be missed.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And if you still all right, I think we need to.
I'm afraid called time on this line, which is getting
worse by the minute. I am so so sorry to
have to cut that one short because I was really
enjoying listening to what sounds like an absolutely phenomenal program.
What I'm going to do is just call up the
festival website, which is Kaleidoscope Festival dot co dot z,
(09:34):
and see whether we can just find the details of
the remaining events to share with you that are going
to keep you entertained through the weekend. But I'm so
so sorry about the quality of that line letting us down.
As it's done, I can see my producer is trying
to put in a phone call and just see if
we can pick up the last few details. But while
she's trying to connect my phone, let me just share
with you a couple of the ins and arts that
(09:56):
we haven't mentioned yet. Firstly, well to repeat the dates.
This has happening twenty two to twenty four August in
the town of Prince Albert. You need to get onto
the N one drive all the way past Mikey, Spontane
and Lanesburg in that area and beyond, and then you'll
hang a right at some point and make your way
down to Prince Albert to immerse yourself in this program.
And I don't know what's sounding nice of the music
(10:16):
or the food, or better still, the combination of the two.
All Right, we get to try and just limp along
on the phone and hope that the phone line does
us a little bit prouder than the zoom line was
doing there. So once again Louise Lansdowne, organizer of the
Kaleidoscope Festival, joining me now by phone we got to
the cheese and wine concert, the string quartet, the youngster
who is a performing his own composition which is going
(10:38):
to be amazing. Louise, Sorry, won't you pick it up
from there? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yes, of course I will. Sorry, I'm stuck in tuscally
and Ealy teaching.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Oh what a terrible place to be.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Okay, yeah, absolutely yes. So this a string cortet concert
also has some fantastic South African music by Macalekapang, and
there's some wonderful string quarteta arrangements by South African violinist
Samson Diamond. And then if you're not full up with
food and music, you need to keep going and go
(11:11):
straight to the Swatburg Hotels in the center of Prince Albert,
where you can get a fantastic career inspired dinner followed
by an amazing concert with Nick Turner and Skolcubert abtualely
named Breakfast in Cape Town, lunch in New York and
dinner in Prince Albert, so not to be missed. And
(11:32):
if you've still got more energy after that, we're having
a jamming session in the Long Hate. So if everyone
wants to bring their instruments, just come and come and play,
Come and join us. We're all going to be, you know,
towering on into the to the late night to finish
off the festival. The next morning we have got we're
(11:52):
joining actually the church service in the New Apostolic Church
in North End of Prince Albert, and our young Cawn
Philharmonic Youth orchestra musicians will be playing some of their
own music but also all of the hymns in the
New Apatholic Church at nine a m. So for the
(12:14):
early rises and the final concert and lunch of the
of the festival. It's it's eleven o'clock in what is
known as the Old Central Hotel. We call it Garfield's
Places because Garfield lives there now and you're you're going
to hear the concert called Long Walk to Freedom. Now,
this is all South African music some of it from
(12:38):
World Premiers Music via the Seven Bosh based composer Arthur Fader,
Grant mccachon, Young Hendrik Harley and Montage Marcebi. And we're
actually just going to finish off the concert with a
couple of crazy PiZZ solo numbers just to to spice
at the end of the concert and are followed by
(12:59):
sump chirst Meil inspired by Medieva at Journey's restaurant which
is next door. So and by that it's time. If
you're not exhausted, I've not gone my job.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I mean it sounds like the most phenomenal program in
Louise lovely to have something to look forward to as
we drag ourselves through the final weeks of winter. It's
always lovely to be able to think, in a couple
of weeks time, I'll be able to enjoy X, Y
or Z. And in this case, we want you to say,
I'll be going to Prince Albert for the Kaleidoscope Festival.
Let's quickly chat about booking. Is it a case of
(13:30):
your book one ticket to enjoy the entire experience or
do you book for each individual component.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Louise, I would love to have done and a book
for the entire experience, but this was very tricky on cricket,
so it's a book for each one. And if you
go on to cricket, you can just pick on each
event and you prick on tickets and you can vent
see if you want to eat, you can choose that.
Otherwise you can just buy a concert ticket or you
(13:55):
can buy both, and so it's super easy to follow.
Our website has got gorgeous pictures of all of the
burnies just to get you extra excitement. And you know,
we are particularly grateful to west Grow and to the
Prince Albert community. Trust to you. We are collaborating with
very deeply on the festival.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
That's fantastic to hear.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Obviously, if you're going to go through and make a
weekend of it, also just google and check out some
of the many many hospitality options in Prince all but
if you're looking for a place to stay for the weekend,
but most importantly you want to be on Kaleidoscope Festival
dot co dot z to sort of get a sense
of the program, identify which bits you want to attend,
and then you move over to cicket to book your
(14:39):
individual tickets. Luise, it sounds like you have put together
the most wonderful program of works and eats, and I
hope that this event is going to be really well
supported because of what you've told us, particularly about where
that funding is going to keep the musical education moving
forward in the town. So we hope that the event
is going to be a huge success and look forward
(15:00):
to a conversation about the growth and expansion of ARCO
and its activities. And who knows, you know, these could
be the musicians who one day are sitting in the orchestra,
put at the artscape entertaining us for the ballet or
the opera or whatever it is that we are looking to.
I mean, that is the big goal, the big dream, Louise,
inclosing to allow these children to dream of things like
(15:20):
that being possible for them.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
That is the absolute hope that they will be the
teachers and the performers of the future.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well, thank you for all the work that is going
into making that possible for them. That was Louise Landsdowne
joining us on the line. Apologies for the communication difficulties
this afternoon, but I think we managed to convey what
a very exciting program it is. Both musically and in
terms of the edible offerings twenty two to twenty four
August in Prince Albert and please book your tickets on
(15:51):
cicket
You're with Cape Talk Listens Papaton on lunch in our
travel segment today, we want to tell you about a
new three day classical music and culinary experience which is
going to be happening next month in the Karutan of
Prince Albert. We thought we'd give you a bit of
an early heads up in case you'd like to book
accommodation and really make a weekend of it, because it
(00:23):
would require obviously a bit of a drive from Capeton,
but boy, it sounds like it's going to be worth it.
It's called the Kaleidoscope Festival and it's going to blend
world class classical and chamber music with food and wine
inspired by the heritage of the Carew. Now the event
runs from the twenty second to the twenty fourth of August,
and as I said, we want to tell you about
it now in case you want to make a plan
(00:44):
to go and spend the whole weekend in Prince Albert.
To tell us more about the Kaleidoscope Festival, it's a
great pleasure to have the events organized in Louise Lansdowne
joining us via zoom this afternoon. Welcome Louise. Great to
have you with us, thank you so much. Tell us
a little bit about where the idea of this festival
came from, Where did it all begin, how did it
get off the ground.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, I've been thinking for a long time about how
it's possible to bring the wonders of the carew the
beauty of music, the fantastic food, incredible scenery, and I'm
taking care of the future of music education and music
(01:25):
in South Africa. And somehow Kaleidoscope seemed like the perfect solution.
So that the sort of inspiration really is that in
Prince Albert, around seven months ago at the ARCO Project,
an outreach string teaching education program began in collaboration with
(01:46):
the Prince Albert Community Trust. And this Kaleidoscope Festival is really,
i say, a fundraising and a festival arm of the
ARCO Project. It's there to support these eight young children
who have just started to learn to play the violin,
the viola, the ceo and the double bass in Prince Albert.
(02:08):
And so yes, that gets it started.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
As a former attempted violinist and the mother of an
accomplished viola player, nothing makes my heart swell with joy
more than hearing that there are still efforts being made
to instill the love of those instruments and to make
sure that they are accessible to kids all over the country.
It's not an easy thing though. Stringed instruments cost a
lot of money. Professional teaching costs a lot of money.
(02:33):
Sheet music costs a lot of money. Before we talk
more about the festival, Luis, do you want to just
expand a little bit about how much reach ARCO is
having and how they're able to sustain that program.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
ARCO is working within two crashes within Prince Albert, Prince
Albert Primary School and then also two other schools, Albert
College and Quirk Fallet School, So our reaches across the
whole of the town at the moment, and we're working
with eighty young people between the age of four to thirteen.
(03:08):
So we've really had to get little mini instruments. Yeah,
lots and lots of mini instruments which are not that
easy to get. We brought all of them over from
the UK because actually it's not so simple to try
and find such little instruments for four year olds to
feed the double bass. It's quite hard. And yeah, so
(03:30):
how we are doing that. We are working unbelievably hard
to immerse ourselves within the community and make ourselves part
of what Prince Albert needs. And so we are planning
if we're able to also be involved in the greater
area le Chanka class Throom, Lanesburg, both at West, if
(03:55):
we are lucky enough to be able to sustain ourselves.
So it's a lot of funding Apple, It's a lot
of talking to people, working with people and finding out
really what people need. And I suppose our biggest thing
that maybe has what we have learned is that we
are connecting with people with their own music.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We are not.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Teaching the young kids Western art music. We are teaching them.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Careu music that sounds incredible. Tell us a little bit
more about the kind of music you're working with, and
then I promise we will get back to the festival information.
But I'm just so intrigued by this story. What sort
of music are you are you teaching?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So we are we are teaching Afrikaans songs, children's songs.
I've done a lot of reading in the Fakhas Sung
Bundle and connecting with teachers finding out which songs the
kids do connect with. And although we're teaching, you know,
what one could call western instruments. The music we are
(04:58):
teaching is totally South African, so that is really what
we want to be relevant to the young people that
we're teaching and want to connect with them in their
own culture and their own way.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, you've done a beautiful job of selling the why
this festival is so worth supporting. Now let's tell everybody
the other part of the story, which is all the
wonderful things they can experience if they come through to
Prince Albert at the end of August. Just for anybody
who's come in midway to this conversation, my guest joining
us via Zoom is Louise Lansdowne, organizer of the Kaleidoscope Festival,
(05:34):
which will be taking place in Prince Albert from the
twenty second to the twenty fourth of August. It's about music,
it's about food, it's about celebrating the amazing, beautiful scenic
location of Prince Albert. Let's delve into some of those.
Louise tell us a little bit more about some of
the highlights on the festival program.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Sure, actually we are starting off if you want to
drive in from Cape Ton and gate in for lunchtime.
The first concert is the four Arca Youth Orchestras, Little
string Orchestras, and they're playing a program of wonderful South
African music. This is going to be held at the
headquarters of the Prince Albert Community Trust known as the
Pop Center. So that's the first, the first highlight to
(06:14):
start off the festival. In the evening, I'm going to
be playing a concert with Hendrik Hoffmer, wonderful composer and
pianist and mezzo soprano Minette Detroit, a concert of songs
for viola jano and mezzo soprano. So go and have
a look at the program. Before that, you can have
(06:36):
some fantastic pizza at the long Hase just across the
road from the showroom. On Saturday morning, the twenty third
of August, head into the Swatberg Pass at UNESCO World
Heritage Site and you're going to hear a fantastic program
on what's called the dance floor, surrounded by incredible mam.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh, we just lost the signal at the crucial moment.
They have a I want to know wherein what the
dance floor is in the Swatberg Past.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Reddits for everybody and you can come and hear.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh Louise I'm so sorry the signal broke up of
when you said on the Saturday you need to head
into the Swartburg Pass to hear music performed on the
dance floor, and then it cut out right at the
cliffhanger of what the dance floor is. Won't you just sit,
take a step back and start from there please?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Sure? Of course, the dance floor is a natural amphitheater
within the Swartberg Pass. It's about a five minute drive
from Prince Albert and the Lazy Lizard, a fantastic restaurant
on the edge of town, is going to be making
a fabulous breakfast for everybody, and you'll be entertained to
(07:42):
the sound of four violas and a double bass on
this dance floor. We'll have chairs for everybody, no heaters,
but I would highly recommend it. If you're still hungry
and hungry for more music and food, you need to
head down to the Yellow House next where the young
musicians from the Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Orchestra their Brass Quintete,
(08:05):
will be playing, accompanied by pizza and wine. So don't
miss it.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh, I'm so sorry about the quality of the zoom
line that we really are struggling with at the moment,
I don't know, were sorry Louise to pause you there?
We lost the line again, and I'm wondering if it
might not be worth trying to call Louise instead of
that's possible. I believe the line on zoom is better
than the line on the phone, so we'll have to
just struggle on and hope it doesn't happen too often. Louise,
(08:35):
you mentioned the cape Ton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Brass section
playing at the Yellow Horse. What came after that?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yes, actually it's the Yellow House House. After that, no problem,
everyone is allowed to go and have a little sleep
and arrest and at five pm there's a cheese and
wine and a fantastic concert with the Cape Town Philharmonic
Youth Orchestra string quartet playing and all African program of music. Actually,
(09:04):
one of their players, a young violinist and accordionist, is
going to be playing one of his own compositions, so
it's definitely not to be missed.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And if you still all right, I think we need to.
I'm afraid called time on this line, which is getting
worse by the minute. I am so so sorry to
have to cut that one short because I was really
enjoying listening to what sounds like an absolutely phenomenal program.
What I'm going to do is just call up the
festival website, which is Kaleidoscope Festival dot co dot z,
(09:34):
and see whether we can just find the details of
the remaining events to share with you that are going
to keep you entertained through the weekend. But I'm so
so sorry about the quality of that line letting us down.
As it's done, I can see my producer is trying
to put in a phone call and just see if
we can pick up the last few details. But while
she's trying to connect my phone, let me just share
with you a couple of the ins and arts that
(09:56):
we haven't mentioned yet. Firstly, well to repeat the dates.
This has happening twenty two to twenty four August in
the town of Prince Albert. You need to get onto
the N one drive all the way past Mikey, Spontane
and Lanesburg in that area and beyond, and then you'll
hang a right at some point and make your way
down to Prince Albert to immerse yourself in this program.
And I don't know what's sounding nice of the music
(10:16):
or the food, or better still, the combination of the two.
All Right, we get to try and just limp along
on the phone and hope that the phone line does
us a little bit prouder than the zoom line was
doing there. So once again Louise Lansdowne, organizer of the
Kaleidoscope Festival, joining me now by phone we got to
the cheese and wine concert, the string quartet, the youngster
who is a performing his own composition which is going
(10:38):
to be amazing. Louise, Sorry, won't you pick it up
from there? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yes, of course I will. Sorry, I'm stuck in tuscally
and Ealy teaching.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Oh what a terrible place to be.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Okay, yeah, absolutely yes. So this a string cortet concert
also has some fantastic South African music by Macalekapang, and
there's some wonderful string quarteta arrangements by South African violinist
Samson Diamond. And then if you're not full up with
food and music, you need to keep going and go
(11:11):
straight to the Swatburg Hotels in the center of Prince Albert,
where you can get a fantastic career inspired dinner followed
by an amazing concert with Nick Turner and Skolcubert abtualely
named Breakfast in Cape Town, lunch in New York and
dinner in Prince Albert, so not to be missed. And
(11:32):
if you've still got more energy after that, we're having
a jamming session in the Long Hate. So if everyone
wants to bring their instruments, just come and come and play,
Come and join us. We're all going to be, you know,
towering on into the to the late night to finish
off the festival. The next morning we have got we're
(11:52):
joining actually the church service in the New Apostolic Church
in North End of Prince Albert, and our young Cawn
Philharmonic Youth orchestra musicians will be playing some of their
own music but also all of the hymns in the
New Apatholic Church at nine a m. So for the
(12:14):
early rises and the final concert and lunch of the
of the festival. It's it's eleven o'clock in what is
known as the Old Central Hotel. We call it Garfield's
Places because Garfield lives there now and you're you're going
to hear the concert called Long Walk to Freedom. Now,
this is all South African music some of it from
(12:38):
World Premiers Music via the Seven Bosh based composer Arthur Fader,
Grant mccachon, Young Hendrik Harley and Montage Marcebi. And we're
actually just going to finish off the concert with a
couple of crazy PiZZ solo numbers just to to spice
at the end of the concert and are followed by
(12:59):
sump chirst Meil inspired by Medieva at Journey's restaurant which
is next door. So and by that it's time. If
you're not exhausted, I've not gone my job.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I mean it sounds like the most phenomenal program in
Louise lovely to have something to look forward to as
we drag ourselves through the final weeks of winter. It's
always lovely to be able to think, in a couple
of weeks time, I'll be able to enjoy X, Y
or Z. And in this case, we want you to say,
I'll be going to Prince Albert for the Kaleidoscope Festival.
Let's quickly chat about booking. Is it a case of
(13:30):
your book one ticket to enjoy the entire experience or
do you book for each individual component.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Louise, I would love to have done and a book
for the entire experience, but this was very tricky on cricket,
so it's a book for each one. And if you
go on to cricket, you can just pick on each
event and you prick on tickets and you can vent
see if you want to eat, you can choose that.
Otherwise you can just buy a concert ticket or you
(13:55):
can buy both, and so it's super easy to follow.
Our website has got gorgeous pictures of all of the
burnies just to get you extra excitement. And you know,
we are particularly grateful to west Grow and to the
Prince Albert community. Trust to you. We are collaborating with
very deeply on the festival.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
That's fantastic to hear.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Obviously, if you're going to go through and make a
weekend of it, also just google and check out some
of the many many hospitality options in Prince all but
if you're looking for a place to stay for the weekend,
but most importantly you want to be on Kaleidoscope Festival
dot co dot z to sort of get a sense
of the program, identify which bits you want to attend,
and then you move over to cicket to book your
(14:39):
individual tickets. Luise, it sounds like you have put together
the most wonderful program of works and eats, and I
hope that this event is going to be really well
supported because of what you've told us, particularly about where
that funding is going to keep the musical education moving
forward in the town. So we hope that the event
is going to be a huge success and look forward
(15:00):
to a conversation about the growth and expansion of ARCO
and its activities. And who knows, you know, these could
be the musicians who one day are sitting in the orchestra,
put at the artscape entertaining us for the ballet or
the opera or whatever it is that we are looking to.
I mean, that is the big goal, the big dream, Louise,
inclosing to allow these children to dream of things like
(15:20):
that being possible for them.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
That is the absolute hope that they will be the
teachers and the performers of the future.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well, thank you for all the work that is going
into making that possible for them. That was Louise Landsdowne
joining us on the line. Apologies for the communication difficulties
this afternoon, but I think we managed to convey what
a very exciting program it is. Both musically and in
terms of the edible offerings twenty two to twenty four
August in Prince Albert and please book your tickets on
(15:51):
cicket
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