The City of Cape Town’s Arts and Culture Department will be hosting a free concert at Wynberg Park on Reconciliation Day, Wednesday 16 December 2009.

The Concert in the Park is an annual event to encourage and celebrate reconciliation and national unity through music. Families from different cultural backgrounds are encouraged to bring along a picnic or use the park’s braai facilities and enjoy an afternoon of entertainment for all. The event will begin at 12:00 and end at 18:00, when the park closes.

The music lineup will feature well known Cape Town bands and individuals, and various community artists such as Chad Saaiman, Hot Water, Tucan Tucan and The Rudimentals.

The programme will kick off on Monday 14 December 2009 with an information session to members of the public who are interested in the music industry. Music technology, business management and pitfalls in the art industry, publishing and distributing, copyright laws, royalties, song-writing skills, registering of song and market accessibility will be discussed. The information session will be held at the Joseph Stone Auditorium in Athlone and as spaces are limited, bookings need to be made via Kani Naidoo on 082 9263647.

“The concert is our way of showing that we encourage local talent and the legitimate buying of authentic South African music,” says Lesley Truter, Project Developer, Arts and Culture.

“We’re also trying encourage communities to reclaim their public parks with positive initiatives like these to discourage the use of public spaces for anti-social types of behaviour. We urge Captonians to support us in this endeavour.”

The City’s Come and Play Department will entertain children with jumping castles, games and face painting. Parking will be on a first come, first service basis, and will be supervised by security personnel.

Martin Pollack

Cape Town based band, Tucan Tucan are offering you their WHOLE 1st album: “Xiluva” for free download.

“Since we are busy writing for our forthcoming album we want to give you the opportunity to have, embrace, sing along and finally fall in love with our previous albums before you can decide to buy our 3rd one!”

The free download will be available from 1st MARCH to 1st APRIL at this address: http://www.tucan-tucan.com/music.html.

Tucan Tucan are the recent winners of the Golden Horn – SAFTA Awards for best music composition for film.

Muriel Marco together with Ghalik Jacobs scooped the Golden Horn Award for best composition for the film Confessions of a Gambler screened in South Africa, North America, Dubai and Spain. The Tucan Tucan tracks “Slow Jam” and “Conga Loca” were featured in this film.

And Tucan Tucan is set to feature on the German movie Glamour and Gloria this March.

Upcoming Gigs:

• Cape Town festival: Saturday 21st March @ Company Gardens.
• Constantia Waldorf Fair: Saturday 28th March. Tucan Tucan will grace the stage @ 2 pm at the Constantia Waldorf School, Spaanschemat River Road. For more information phone 021 794 2103.

Tucan Tucan performing at the J&B Met, dressed by Slate Boutique

Sometimes one gets so wrapped up in Geekspeak, Nerdturd and SEOgobbledegook that you lose sight of the real world terms that make people sit up and listen and then, more importantly, take action………

Now the My Cape Town Business Directory has been growing steadily and getting lots of traffic for the businesses listed, see: Cape Town Netizens Defined

BUT, tell a business owner that he can get a free link or to submit his URL and his eyes mist over like the clouds on the mountain.

What to do, what to do?

Well, if you can’t beat them into understanding then beat them into submission with OLD STYLE advertising slogans like: 100% FREE ADVERTISING for ANY Cape Town Business HERE

Yup, pardner – free no obligation advertising for as long as the Mountain stands or the death of the internet, and, just in case, you miss it the exhortation to move your mouse pointer and clickety click on the link appears quite a few times under news items on MyCapeTown.

Do it, NOW, you know you want to.

You can even list your Cape Town ONLY business in as many categories as there are variations and strengths of “papegaai twak“!

It has been a coupla months now that MyCapeTown has been up and running with the sole intent to promote Cape Town news and business in a positive way online. Now, the way we do so is to make sure that MyCapeTown is visible in the search engines, relevant and up to date.

With that in mind we thought that now would be an appropriate time to take out the old vuvuzela (we don’t do trumpets in good old South Africa!) and give it a blast by showcasing the top keywords bringing traffic to MyCapeTown these past 14 days. The keywords below are the ones that brought the most traffic to MyCapeTown via search engines in the last two weeks – click on the keyword to go to the corresponding result on MyCapeTown and click on the Google link to see just where MyCapeTown ranks on Google (Another flavour of Google Search can be found HERE):

mycapetown.co.za | Google
abortion clinics in cape town | Google
fishing tackle cape town | Google
matric exam results | Google
suri cruz | Google
jumping castles cape town | Google
office furniture cape town | Google
jessica jane clement playboy | Google
weather guru | Google
pet shop cape town | Google
fabric shops | Google
cape town porn | Google
abortion clinics | Google
scrap yards cape town | Google
cattery cape town | Google
cape town telephone directory | Google
jessica jane clement nude | Google
jesse clegg | Google
kennels cape town | Google
nursing homes cape town | Google
kerry winter | Google
marcus medical | Google
fabric shops cape town | Google
the voice newspaper cape town | Google
kendra flashes | Google
pet shops cape town | Google
perspex cape town | Google
jungle gyms cape town | Google
playground slides cape town | Google
undertakers cape town | Google
halls for hire cape town | Google
beauty salons cape town | Google
steve hofmeyr divorce | Google
catteries cape town | Google
wigs cape town | Google
chiropractor in cape town | Google
langebaan weather | Google
abortion clinic cape town | Google
scrap yards in cape town | Google
shoe factory shops cape town | Google
guru weather | Google
viral infection | Google
nb communications | Google
gunsmiths | Google
where to get an abortion in cape town | Google
fabric world wynberg | Google
halls for hire | Google
repo auctions | Google
gastroenterologist cape town | Google
jungle gym cape town | Google
window tinting cape town | Google
carparts cape town | Google
cape town pussy | Google
kirstenbosch gardens carols 2008 | Google
dry cleaners cape town | Google
old age homes | Google
castors cape town | Google
orca corker as curses fly at city restaurant | Google
hackers plunder r400m from state | Google
pet shop tank cap town | Google
halls for hire in cape town | Google
dressmaker in cape town | Google
wanking in cape town.com | Google
vintage clothing | Google

Taking the keywords above I suppose that one could do a quick and nasty determination of the current state of Cape Town netizens as follows:

They definitely struggle with using their browsers as Capetonians seem to search for mycapetown.co.za quite a lot.

It seems as though the titillation to be found on beaches and Sandy Bay is just not enough as there are many searches for titillating content, jessica jane clement playboy and cape town pussy (I don’t think this person meant to search for cattery cape town, but one never knows!) are two in point. Of course it seems as though all this need for titillation has had some disastrous consequences with the search for abortion clinics in cape town being a month after month top search followed closely by chiropractor in cape town – What is wrong Guys, can’t you keep up with the sexual shenanigans and athletic positions demanded by some of Cape Town’s finest Escort Services? Maybe we should all take a leaf out of this searcher’s book and stick to wanking in cape town.com.

Good to see that Cape Town mense look after their four legged friends and use kennels cape town whilst they go on holiday, after looking for their favourite sporting goods, fishing tackle cape town. Although it appears that Granny and Grandpa are no longer welcome on the annual holiday as the search for nursing homes cape town has increased somewhat.

A round of applause please for the Kaapies looking for gastroenterologist cape town – your foresight ahead of this festive season is to be commended, nothing like looking out for your liver before you proceed to destroy it with copious amounts of alcohol and that “papegaai twak” that is everyone’s friend on the way up Table Mountain!

Looks as though the langebaan weather needs constant monitoring as the oldies on that side are on the look out for replacement wigs cape town as theirs blew away in the last South Easter.

Okay, what does all this mean?

1. The MyCapeTown Business Directory is sending targeted traffic to many of the businesses listed in the categories above.
2. You can prove that for your self by clicking on the Google link next to each of the small sample of keywords above and checking out just how well MyCapeTown ranks for that set of keywords.
3. The listings are clean and free and contain relevant contact details as well as a facility for users to comment and rate.
4. Useful free widgets are provided for you to place on your web site and allow YOUR visitors to rate your web site.
5. BEST of ALL: You do not have to have a web site to list your Cape Town business – only an e-mail and Cape Town telephone number.

List your Cape Town business and see more INFO HERE

And, by the way, an average of 61.7% of visitors have bookmarked MyCape Town in their favourites folders, 22.7% run Linux as an OS and 29.8% are using the Firefox Browser.

An interesting thing about building a local business directory is that often sites are submitted to the free My Cape Town Directory that send you off on a tangent. A recent submission was one for SAQuotes, who offer a quoting system. All you do is choose the category and area you are interested in, fill in a form and wait for people to contact you.

Now SAQuotes submitted a link to their quoting search form for blinds in Cape Town and I toddled off to the site to have a look and check for relevance to Cape Town as well as a local physical address or phone number. That the service, on the url submitted, is for Cape Town is patently obvious, so no problem and I accepted their submission.

A couple of points, though:

1. I would presume that the owners of the site would like people to submit their requests quickly and painlessly so have made the site pretty simple, BUT, for idiots like moi who like to see more detail I couldn’t see any links to a search form for town specific quotation requests.
2. Just how a business gets listed on their database is also not apparent.
3. I would imagine that by making it as attractive as possible for a business to list on their database the ‘word of mouth internet marketing effect’ would help promote the service.

Then I noticed that there are one or two other sites offering the same quotation finding service and wondered if people who had used such a service would like to drop me (alan[at]MyCapeTown) a line (or comment below) and tell me what you thought?