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Click to buy the Sawubona CD!

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The CD includes 13 "Songs Of Good Hope", a CD booklet with 32 pages, all lyrics, background information to the lyrics the SAWUBONA story as well as information about the projects we will support with SAWUBONA. Here you can have a look at the booklet.

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+++ 25 September, 7 pm: Lorch Monastery: SAWUBONA Acoustic Band Concert +++


The SAWUBONA Acoustic Band will play at 25 September "The Songs Of Good Hope" at the Monastery Of Lorch, Germany. The band will be:
Werner Acker, guit, Ekkehard Rössle, sax, Verna Nübel and Annette Kienzle, voc. The concert will be part of Meinrad Heck's book presentaion "We don't cry, we sing" - short stories from South Africa. You will find more information about the event and tickets at Leben ist Poesie.

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+++ SAWUBONA featured on SWR1! Check it out here. +++

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SAWUBONA CD Release 9 June // Concert Erdmannhausen 30 May // Next Concert in Dortmund

Werner Acker (left), Verena Nuebel & Donovan Copley (Hot Water) at the concert Erdmannhausen, 30 May; photo by Jörg Hilpert.

After a great SAWUBONA concert at 30 May in Erdmannhausen for HUOBER BREZEL with special guests like Donovan Copley (Hot Water, Cape Town), Lucky Thobela (6mabones, Soweto), Whitney Johnson, leader of Ubuntu, Cape Town, Sigrid Klausmann-Sittler and German actor Walter Sittler, we expect the CD of the SAWUBONA release at 9 June.

The CD includes 13 "Songs Of Good Hope", a CD booklet with 32 pages, all lyrics, background information to the lyrics the SAWUBONA story as well as information about the projects we will support with SAWUBONA. The offical distribution of the CD will start at 10 June 2010.

To order a Sawubona CD (14,99 EUR) please send a mail to info@sawubona-musicjam.com.

Here you can have a look at the booklet.

SAWUBONA Concerts in June 2010:

The next concert of the SAWUBONA Band will be at 12 June at the Afro-Ruhr Festival, Westfalenpark in Dortmund, 8:30 pm, open air.

The Afro Ruhr Festival takes one day and is a event with music, for families, litrature, arts, basar, african food and communication between the cultures. The music program will be Jahcoustix (Reggea), Teba and the Champions, Cape Town (Hip-Hop & Reggae), Minni the Moocher (vielseitige Ska-Punk-Band), the Living Legends und The Sawubona Band as well as Zap Mama und Manou Gallo. More infos:
www.afro-ruhr-festival.de

Tickets and information:
KulturInfoShop in der Sparkasse
Katharinenstr. 1
44137 Dortmund
www.dortmund.de/kis
kis@dortmund.de
Tel. 0231/50-27710
Fax 0231/50-27740
Open:
Monday - Friday: 10.00 - 18.00 Uhr
Saturday 10.00 - 14.00 Uhr

German actor Walter Sittler reading Songs Of Good Hope lyrics (Soweto's Shebeens), photo by Jörg Hilpert.

Lucky Thobela singing "Tell Me The Truth", photo by Jörg Hilpert.

From left: Werner Acker, Ekkehard Roessle, Annette Kienzle and Verena Nübel "Rainbow Scatterings", photo by Jörg Hilpert.

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The SAWUBONA Band @Theatre House Stuttgart 4 April

During the 24th Jazz Days at Theatre House Suttgart the SAWUBONA Band performed at evening of 4 April the 12 "Songs Of Good Hope".

Even with much competition from other bands at the same time in other locations of the Theater House - the SAWUBONA concert had a very good number of listeners - about 80 percent of all seats were sold. Read more.

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The SAWUBONA Band Concert@HUOBER Brezeln, 9 March, Erdmannhausen, Germany

The SAWUBONA Band played at 9 March for the employees and business partners of HUOBER Brezeln, Erdmannhausen, Germany. With the concert Karl Huober, CEO HUOBER Brezeln, introduced SAWUBONA and the engagement of the company to employees and business partners. The band played the full SAWUBONA concert program and get the employees dance to the music. "A small and nice concert, but also a big step forward for the band and the project", says Werner Acker (guit) and muiscal director of SAWUBONA.

HUOBER Brezeln will support the Aids project Ubuntu in Cape Town and plans also a bigger SAWUBONA concert at 30 May as open air event on the area of the factory with special guests. Read more.

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The SAWUBONA Band Concert@CeBIT Opening 1 March All songs and videos: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DFF530681615E093

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IBM presents@CeBIT Opening Ceremony 1 March, Hanover:
SAWUBONA/Songs Of Good Hope in Concert

Hanover/Suttgart, 1 March 2010 – IBM presents the SAWUBONA/Songs Of Good Hope at the evening of the CeBIT Opening Ceremony, 9 – 10:30 pm, Kuppelsaal, Glasfoyer at the Hanover Congress Centrum. The “Songs Of Good Hope” are the results of IBM’s Internet MusicJam project which started 2008 at CeBIT Fair. Musicians around the world were asked to compose music to 17 lyrics about South Africa. About 600 SAWUBONA participants composed 120 “Songs Of Good Hope” during the last 18 months.

About 14 “Songs Of Good Hope” will be in the final selection for a CD production, online sales and for concert performance. All proceeds from music marketing will support Township projects in South Africa in the education area as well as for AIDS prevention and help. IBM’s MusicJam project SAWUBONA/Songs Of Good Hope is more than an IT project to showcase social platforms. An example for a SAWUBONA help project is the AIDS project Ubuntu in Cape Towon. Ubuntu Africa, NFP. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing lifesaving healthcare and support services to HIV positive children and teens in Khayelitsha, South Africa. This project will be also supported from the German actor Walter Sittler, his wife Sigrid Klausmann-Sittler, Thomas Hitzlsperger, member of ther German National Soccer Team and HUOBER Brezeln.

Another example of a help project which SAWUBONA supports is Ubuntu Ma Africa. Members of IBM’s Coroporate Service Corps (young managers were assigned to work for NGOs for couple of weeks) help a non-profit organization in South Africa that provides home-based care and education for people with HIV & AIDS, diabetes, depression, sexually transmitted infections, and victims of abuse and violence. What the organization needs is a decommissioned shipping container to convert into office space.

Read more.

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Ubuntu ma Africa - Your small donation will make a big difference.

Although you may never have heard of Ubuntu Ma Africa, you will recognize it's mission:

To uplift people living in disadvantaged communities.

Ubuntu Ma Africa is a non profit organization in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape, South Africa, providing home-based care and education for people with HIV & AIDS, diabetes, depression, sexually transmitted infections, and victims of abuse and violence. The organization receives limited funding and much of it goes to pay the rent on their office space and training room.

Because they have to pay rent, they don't have enough funding for their awareness campaigns and training programs. This is where we need your help... more

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Mrs. Germany, Elischeba Wilde, wants to support SAWUBONA

She lives in a world of beauty and fashion, but she stays really connected to the real world. Above her involvement for Ady, a nine year old child from Senegal, Elischeba Wilde wants to support SAWUBONA help projects, too. Elischeba, the reigning Mrs. Germany and Andreas Schwall, IBMer and SAWUBONA musician, met for an interview. Read the interview.

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+++ SAWUBONA 2010 +++

Dear Sawubona Members,

siyabonga for all your contributions to the SAWUBONA MusicJam platform. At the end of 2009 we will give you some views about the follow ups of the project in 2010.

2010 will be the year of SAWUBONA and the "Songs Of Good Hope". During December Werner Acker, Ken Hensley and others evaluated the songs we got for the Sawubona MusicJam - about 120. They will select about 15 "Songs Of Good Hope" for the CD production which starts in the 3rd. week in January. For concerts we will select some "Songs Of Good Hope" more. We will inform you about the final list in the middle of January. The great thing is that it is hard to find out the final songs to record because so many good contributions from many regions of the world. Read more

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Sawubona @Creativity World Forum (Ludwigsburg)

Watch the Key Note with Ken Hensley and Dr. Niko Waesche here.

Ken Hensley & The Sawubona Acoustic Band are invited to perform "Songs Of Good Hope" at 1 December at the Creativity World Forum (CFW) in Ludwigsburg. The CFW takes place every year in different regions of the world. Baden-Wuerttemberg will be this year the region for the CFW - hosted by the regional government.

Werner Acker, Prof. Jazz guitar at the Music University Suttgart and Ken Hensley working together to prepare songs from the contributions to the Sawubona MusicJam project. The band will perform a "Songs Of Good Hope" concert in the evening of the 1 December to open an exhibt for the Creativity World Forum as well as in the morning's main session as part of a talkshow about "The Impact of Digitalization on the Music and Creative Industries" with Prof. Dr. Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (Ilmenau), EU Ambassador of the "Year of Creativity and Innovation" Germany, Ken Hensley, Musician and Founder of "Uriah Heep" and Dr. Niko Waesche, IBM Global Business Services, Media Industries, Northeast Europe. The talkshow will be hosted by Prof. Udo Dahmen, University Of Popmusic, Mannheim. Read more

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IBM Launches New Cape Town Africa Innovation Centre to Help Fuel Skills Growth in South Africa

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – September 17, 2009 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today opened an Africa Innovation Centre in Cape Town to foster the development of information technology and business skills and to expand its customer and business partner ecosystem in the region. The centre will help local businesses develop and deploy new technologies that support key digital infrastructure opportunities in government, banking, insurance, retail, and travel and transportation industries. Read more

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Stuttgart, 5 July - 3 members of Hugh Masekela's band, Abednigo Sibongiseni (Fana) Zulu (Bass), Lee-Roy Sauls (Drums) and Francis Manneh Fuster (Percussion) team up with the Sawubona Acustic Band, Werner Acker (Guitar), Annette Kienzle (Vocals), Mthunzi Fesi (Vocals), Ekkehard Rössle (Saxophone), Albert Mayer-Mikosch (Acustic Guitar) and Eckhard Stromer (Percussion) for songs "Rainbow Scatterings", "Collecting The Money" and "A Word". The band started the concert with Brian McDonald's "Soweto, June 1994".

The concert was also the opening for Hugh Masekela's great concert in Suttgart which was not sure because Hugh had to visit hospital in the morning - he had an accident with his arm. "If that accident would not happend, I really played with you guys" told us Hugh in a video statement - You will find his statement as well as other statements in videos form the event - they will be ready in the next day. Fana, Lee-Roy and Francis met up in the afternoon of the concert with the Sawubona Acoustics Band at the University Of Suttgart for very first rehearsal. Werner said: It's magic how they find their ways into the songs from the begining. For us it was a great rehearsal and concert with such outstanding musicians". Fana was already member of the old SAWUBONA band 1998/1999 and he said "it is absolutly great to relaunch the project on an Internet platform". Siyabonga, Fana, Francis and Lee-Roy for the magic collaboration, siyabonga Hugh and all members of his band for the great concert in Suttgart! "All about Hugh Masekela"