South Africa

South Africa's scenic beauty, magnificent outdoors, friendly climate, cultural diversity and reputation for delivering value-for-money means that it is one of the worlds fastest growing performance destinations. A culturally diverse country; one nation made up of many peoples, ranging from the Zulus who resisted European conquest to the nomadic San of the Karoo desert. With 11 different official languages, a multiplicity of traditions and skin tones ranging from ebony to sunburnt pink, it is truly the “rainbow nation” of Africa.



Each culture has evolved its own distinctive art forms, music and traditional rituals, while the descendants of colonial settlers have evolved variations of their European roots. The country’s history has been one of confrontation, but more recently one of celebrated reconciliation after the famous “negotiated revolution” which brought democracy to all.

South Africa is not called a world in one country for nothing. Travellers can experience a veritable kaleidoscope of landscape - deserts, thundering oceans and coastal forests with a myriad of plant and animal species.  Eight of the world's official heritage sites, as determined by Unesco's World Heritage Committee, are in South Africa. The arts are as rich and varied as might be expected from such a “rainbow” nation.

South Africa is the 25th largest market for recorded music, with a local industry employing more than 20,000 people.  South Africa offers you outstanding performance opportunities and unparalleled cultural immersions in beautifully unique surrounds.