YCB Tour of South Africa and Swaziland, May-June 2011

A surprise safari on the first day

A joint rehearsal between the YCB and the Northwestern University Wind Ensemble in Potchefstroom

YCB trumpeters play with

NWU trumpeters

A mutual lesson on xylophone

The band gathers to form a Y

on the steps of the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria

The band gathers around Antoinette Pieterson outside the Hector

Pieterson Museum in Pretoria

Band members stayed in thatched

huts on a game reserve in Swaziland

Posing atop a mountain during

a sunset safari in Swaziland

The band plays a concert at the Bushfire Festival in Swaziland

After helping build houses in a poor township in Cape Town, the band hands out shirts to local children

Some band members climb the

cliffs at the Cape of Good Hope

Band seniors pose together after

their last concert with the band