SP Hartbeespoort
Kiddi Beat Sp, Hartbeespoort
Sanet Schoeman and Petro Grové started planning the Kiddi Beat concept in January 2004. From the beginning Kiddi Beat was blessed. In almost no time we found a studio, bought instruments and started preparing our creative space. We had lots of fun painting the Kiddi Beat logo onto the walls and spend endless hours sticking masking tape to the walls to paint stripes. The result of which you will see on the photos.
In April we opened the Kiddi Beat Studio Hartbeespoort doors for the first time. It was such an exiting time writing material and waiting in anticipation for the phone to ring and children to enroll. We made posters and flyers which was placed in prominent spots in and around the town of Hartbeespoort. Soon the news spread. From the five kids we started with we now have almost a hundred children that sing, move and play on a weekly basis in our studio and nursery schools in the area.
On one of our weekly coffee (actually rooibos tea) sessions we started discussing our dream of creating a South African music education programme for the young child. We wanted our children to get to know their cultural heritage through songs and rhymes that are dear to us in their home language, as well as typically South African. We also wanted to give other South African music specialists the opportunity to get acknowledgement for their hard work, expertise and creativity, while at the same time sharing their expertise with mommies and kiddies. The result is Kiddi Beat Sp.
As Petro moved from the area at the end of last year Estelle van Heerden joined the Kiddi Beat Hartbeespoort team. Her energy and love for children has resulted in the business expanding even further. This studio and nursery schools serve as the cooking pot of creative ideas as all Kiddi Beat Sp material is tested and retested here. I recently returned early from maternity leave, having no longer being able to still the urge of sharing music and that thrill with young faces, and that thrill as Honniball from the A-team describes: 'I love it when a (music) plan comes together.'
Sanet Schoeman
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