Earthdance - South Africa

Artists and Performers....the Angenda!

ROBERT MILES would be playing at the Earthdance Gauteng Event in South Africa.
This was confirmed and sorted - please see bottom of the page -
He would be launching his new album “Organix”. We are thrilled to have him a part of this event and encourage all near and far to join us in the festivities. A special thank you to you.

Click here to read Robert Miles' biography.
Scroll down for the line up.

MABI THABOJANE, drummer from Amapondo and Juno Reaktor will also be playing Live!

Click here to read Mabi's biography.
Scroll down for the line up.

Live Acts	DJ's	Other Performers / Features
Wendy Oldfield Shamanzi Bubaka Jennifer Ferguson Dreams of Fire Mabi Thabojane Zwakala	Robert Miles Live Shakti Daimon Firehose In da Skys Dogstar Craig de Sousa Locus Samandhi Matr-x KillaJoolz Gremlin Phibmobil Irish	Rejuvenation Station Full Bar Coffee Bar Fresh Juice Bar Nature Reserve Hiking Trails Mountain Bike Trail Traditional African Cuisine Sound Journeys Drum Circles Workshops

Main Stage Line-up

(always subject to minor change!!)

12 - 1pm	Shakti
1 - 3pm	firehorse
3 - 4pm Wendy Oldfield
4 - 6pm	Daimon
6 - 7pm	Shamanzi
7 - 9pm	Robert Miles
**Dreams of Fire	**Dreams of Fire
9 - 11m	Shakti & Mabi Thobjane
**Jennifer Feurgeson	-
1 AM	GLOBAL LINK UP Prayer for Peace
1 - 3am	Samandhi & Mabi Thobjane
3 - 5am	Locus
5 - 7:30am	Matr-x & KillaJoolz
7 - 9am	Fern D.E.L.I.C.A
9 - 11am	Gremlin
11 - 12pm	In da Skys
12 - 1pm	Dogstar
1 - 3pm	O & R Sessions
3-5pm	Shakti

Unfortunately, there were two setbacks that prevented Robert Miles from both coming to play, as well as streaming his set from London.
Firstly, the air ticket sponsor fell through and we didn't manage to get another sponsor in time for the event
Secondly, we were not able to stream because of poor service from our local (only) telecoms provider. We made enquiries as to availability of ISDN in the Tswaing area, and were assured that the local exchange was ISDN ready, and that the distance to Tswaing was within the permissible maximum distance from the exchange. On Thursday 11 October, we were informed by Telko that ISDN ports were configured on the exchange, and that cable had been run - all was ready an dthey were just waiting for a termination box. By Friday evening it became clear that ISDN was not possible in the area - Tswaing was too far from exchange, and the local exchanges were hopelessly outdated. So we were lied to on several counts over three weeks leading up to the festival. An emergency meeting was called on Friday evening, and a VSAT dish was proposed for use, initially for 35% of the service at more than 200 times the cost!!! Internet Solutions was kind enough to agree to this cost of (at least) R10 000, so that we could bring both Robert Miles to the stage, as well as stream our message of peace to the world. Thank you to IS for doing this.
Well, the dish was installed and ready to go, but unfortunately the network on the Land Earth Station side was not configured correctly as requested, and the support call center informed us that our problem (a very simple one) could only be sorted out the following Monday, as all the brains drain out of telko on the weekend.
Sad but true - we really did try our best to get things working.Internet Solutions and Antfarm can provide robust and effective streaming services across practically any networks, although in this case there was no recourse to sort out the issues due to lack of support from the Telko we all love so much.
Pending permissions, IS and Antfarm will make the set Robert played, while waiting for the connection to run, available on the Earthdance.org.za site. Watch this space.