.......for Great Karoo

[The Great Karoo region including centres like Aliwal North, Barkly East, Cradock,
Dordrecht, Graaff Reinett, Nieu Bethesda, Queenstown, Somerset East, Eliot, Lady Grey]

December 2025

Dear all / Beste almal

I greet you with a short musical hello!

I'd love to be in touch more regularly and look forward visiting South Africa during the course of 2026.

Please note:

  • the confirmed and/or possible events coming up below (Burgersdorp, Cradock and Nieu Bethesda)
  • the rewards that I offer for your efforts to make local events happen and to grow the HA!Network in your area.

I know the Karoo is widely spread, but still, to ensure my visit serves everyone at best, can I ask you to kindly go through the points below and respond by clicking on the relevant links? Thank you!

As for any other ideas or requests you might have, let's talk!

With best regards
Francois (HA!Man)

Link to this page: haworld.net/greatkaroo

Event Announcement
HA!Man Vertoning, Burgersdorp
  • Date: Thu 19 Feb 2026
  • Time: 19h00 (probably)
  • Venue: KREATIEF
  • Address: Burgersdorp Tennis, Tennisbaanstraat
  • Entrance: to be announced
  • Voorlopige Besprekings / Navrae: Pieter 0723909019
 
Make More Events HA!ppen

Schools in the Cradock area



    "This valuable ability to find such a vivid way to express yourself, can easily get lost in a world of canned music and backtracks. Our kids should learn this from artists like HA!Man"
  • Available date: Fri 20 Feb 2026
  • Request: propose a school visit with an interactive performance and/or workshop, or bring me in touch with a relevant staff member
  • How: have a look at/share the School Visits info pdf with link: haworld.net/schoolvisits
  • Note to them that for a first visit, I am prepared to perform or give a workshop as a demonstration, free of charge.
  • Reward: for a confirmed school booking coming through you, you receive a digital HA! product of your choice

Public Performance



"A world-class cellist & pianist who interweaves music, birdcalls, video, utterances and movement into an evocative, multi-sensory performance."

  • Available date:
    • in the Cradock area: Fri 20 Feb 2026
    • in Nieu Bethesda: Sat 29 Aug 2026
  • Request: if you'd like to book me, or connect me with a potential venue host, make use of or share the HA!Man Performances info pdf with link: haworld.net/performances
  • Reward: as venue host, or as one through whom a public performance is confirmed, you receive a digital HA! product of your choice
 
Help to Grow the Network


  • Request: as this is the only and best way to make the HA! enterprise viable in the longer term, kindly spread the word now, and any time into the future, so more people in your area can become connected and have the opportunity to attend events
  • Network status: we currently stand on 37 subscribers for this area. Let's see if we can make it to 50 by the end of 2026?
  • How: share the Join the Network info pdf with its subscription link: haworld.net/network
  • Rewards:
    • You may note to people that every new subscriber gets a surprise pack of HA! creations as a welcome gift.
    • And as for you, you also get a surprise pack for every three people that join through you
 
Summary of Schedule


Thu 19 Feb 2026 Burgersdorp
HA!Man Vertoning

Fri 20 Feb 2026 Cradock
possible School Visit (workshop and/or performance)
possible Public Concert

Sat 29 Aug 2026 Nieu Bethesda
possible Public Concert

Next
a visit during JULY - possibly!
dates during 2027
 

Your work, I feel, is much more than
the making of music. It is muse-ic.
You are using music as a tool, and it is
clearing and creating the old and new, respectively.

(Biren Shah, India)


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