Welcome to the KSB 2011 Concert Tour Blog...South Africa!

What can one say about Cape Town? It is easily the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful city in the world. The city centre is like most other big cities.


But the Waterfront is simply breathtaking.

Table Mountain is so close, seems as though you can reach out with your arm and touch it. And when the 'table cloth' comes over it in the afternoon, it's other wordly. If the weather cooperates, the boys will take a cable car up the top.



It's very much an Antarctica situation. The weather is uncooperative at best. But KSB has had a string of good luck with these sort of things. From the top, you can see forever. It's something you never forget.

The Waterfront itself has the most amazing shopping anywhere in the world. Nuf said.

From the Waterfront, you can take a boat to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent 27 years.


I suppose most of the boys don't know who Nelson Mandela is. Suffice to say he's one of the very few living heros alive today. He's Ghandi and Martin Luther King and President Obama all wrapped into one. We're going to honor him in a very special way when we're here. More on that later.



FYI: The 40 minute boatride to Robben Island is very choppy. Dramamine will be needed for anyone who is the least bit prone to motion sickness, present company included! But the trip is worth it. The tour of the island will include meeting someone who was a prisoner on the Island at one time. We'll also see Mandela's cell. We'll sing for sure.

Tomorrow I meet with the Tygerberg Children's Choir, who hosted us ten years go. If all goes well, we'll be reunited, which will be great fun.



We'll also do a concert outdoors at the Waterfront. There's a great stage.

There's also a world-class aquarium.


And lots and lots of shopping.

Oh, and the best seafood on the planet. As in, what you're putting in your mouth was swimming in the water around you only hours before.

Our time here will also include a trip to the tip of the world. Oh wait, not the very tip. That was our last concert tour. But close! The Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point is an incredible place to stand - where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans come together.




Did I mention the boat ride to an island of seals, and the visit to the ostrich farm where boys will be able to RACE EACH OTHER ON OSTRICHES?

Sounds like another boring concert tour.

More later...