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Speaker 1: And now we move to the Heart Song Collective. The

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Speaker 1: Heart Song Collective is inviting you to their Heartfelt Concert,

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Speaker 1: a spirit song one love, a unique immersive experience where

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Speaker 1: performance and participation gently weave together. And that's happening on

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Speaker 1: the seventeenth of April. It's held in the serene and

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Speaker 1: sacred space of the Sufi Temple in Newlands. And this

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Speaker 1: gathering is offering more than just music. It's also offering

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Speaker 1: a moment to pause, to reconnect and to be uplifted.

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Speaker 1: The CEO of Heart Song, Len Paulsen, joins me on

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Speaker 1: the line. Now, good morning, Len, good Monte Saskia. Please

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Speaker 1: share with us what the Heart Song Collective does.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So we're a community choir. We've been running now

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Speaker 2: in this format for about a year and we are

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Speaker 2: focused on music that uplifts and brings hope and bring healing.

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Speaker 2: So that's that's pretty much in a nutshell. And we're

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Speaker 2: also now an NPC, so we are working towards creating

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Speaker 2: outreach programs as well.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic and I mean music, what better way. It's such

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Speaker 1: a connector of people, absolutely and such a lifter of

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Speaker 1: the spirits. What can people expect from the Spirit Song

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Speaker 1: One Love event.

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Speaker 2: So it's the first time we're performing at the Cfi Temple.

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited about this venue. It's just quite a

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Speaker 2: small space, very intimate, so and for the first time

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Speaker 2: we've really are focusing more on the spirit song hence

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Speaker 2: the name of this concept, and really working with the

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Speaker 2: spiritual songs and bringing something the heartfelt and inward and

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Speaker 2: to help people really connect. What we do is we

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Speaker 2: also invite people to sing with us. So a lot

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Speaker 2: of the songs will have on sheets of paper, will

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Speaker 2: have the lyrics, and people are invited to really partake

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Speaker 2: and really get involved with what's happening. It's very much

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Speaker 2: a group energy. So I was running some singing workshops

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Speaker 2: as well last year. And what I've done with Hart

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Speaker 2: Song Collective is I've started to combine these factors like

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Speaker 2: an audience mixed participation mixed with the concert.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds really lovely. Tell me why how come

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Speaker 1: you guys decided to choose the Sufi Temple in new

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Speaker 2: It's absolutely beautiful. I went down there and I had

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Speaker 2: a little flag visit and I met the lady there, Rihanna.

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Speaker 2: She's lovely, beautiful, little it's very unique space. It's designed

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Speaker 2: like a clover shape and it's got these beautiful sort

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Speaker 2: don't highly explain it, but it's designed like a clover,

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Speaker 2: so it's like a circle in the middle and an

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Speaker 2: audience fits in the clover leaves through clover leaves.

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Speaker 1: I'm really going to add, it's going to add to

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Speaker 1: the whole experience. Yes, Now, Now, do people have to

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Speaker 1: be able to sing if they want to come along?

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Speaker 2: Or Oh no, absolutely not and everyone can sing. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's really about connecting with your voice. We all have

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Speaker 2: voices and yeah. But apart from that, we are always

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Speaker 2: looking for new members. So you know, we're always reaching

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Speaker 2: out for people who would like to join the choir.

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Speaker 2: We're based in Musenberg.

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Speaker 1: And where do people find you? I mean, if they

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Speaker 1: do want to join the choir or even want to

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Speaker 1: come and follow you and see where you guys are performing,

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Speaker 1: how do people get a hold of you?

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Speaker 2: Well, we're well, we've got good presence on social media,

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Speaker 2: so you can find the Heart Song Collective. It's the

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Speaker 2: Heart Song Collective at on Instagram and Facebook. But I'll

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Speaker 2: give you my phone number as well, and then if

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Speaker 2: that is eight four yes, six seven three two three

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Speaker 2: nine four fantastic and yes you can contact met. But

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Speaker 2: the tickets for the show are available on cricket. It's

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Speaker 2: easy to find as well.

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Speaker 1: Now remind us again when is the show happening and

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Speaker 1: is it just one performance?

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Speaker 2: This is just one performance. You'll definitely do it again.

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Speaker 2: This one is happening on the seventeenth of April. It's

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Speaker 2: a Friday night at the Sufi Temple. We open doors

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Speaker 2: at six and how much are the tickets one hundred

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Speaker 2: and eighty ran for adult, one hundred grand for children.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. Thank you so so much for chatting to us today.

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Speaker 1: This really sounds like it's going to be a brilliant,

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Speaker 1: brilliant initiative and we'll be heading over to the Heart

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Speaker 1: date with what's happening. But that's happening if you're interested

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Speaker 1: on the the seventeenth of April the Heart Song Collective.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's going to be absolutely lovely happening

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Speaker 1: at the Sufi Temple in Newlands and you can head

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Speaker 1: In case you're wondering, it's not Sarah Jane mcquala king,

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Speaker 1: through until ten today. But of course this is your

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Speaker 1: show as well as it is our, so please do

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