<p dir="ltr">Future singer-songwriters fill small chairs at a street corner in the Maboneng Precinct every Sunday afternoon for Sidewalk Sessions, a community-building initiative established by Kelly Grevler (pictured). She gives free guitar lessons to young neighborhood children.</p><p dir="ltr">Read more in "A New Golden Age in Johannesburg" in the December 2013/January 2014 issue of <em>National Geographic Traveler</em> (<a href="https://secure.customersvc.com/servlet/Show?WESPAGE=OrderPages/tr/1304/order_15A1.jsp&amp;MSRSMAG=TR&amp;EK1=TRAJ">subscribe here</a>).</p>

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Future singer-songwriters fill small chairs at a street corner in the Maboneng Precinct every Sunday afternoon for Sidewalk Sessions, a community-building initiative established by Kelly Grevler (pictured). She gives free guitar lessons to young neighborhood children.

Read more in "A New Golden Age in Johannesburg" in the December 2013/January 2014 issue of National Geographic Traveler (subscribe here).

Photograph by Bram Lammers

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