Plein To Spain

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Plein to Spain is a cultural exchange program between South Africa and Spain allowing talented, underprivileged South African youth with mediastar aspirations to perform as club acts at venues in the Iberian peninsula. The title is a play on the name of Cape Town's largest Coloured township, Mitchell's Plein, homophonous with (aero-)plane and the famous line from George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion ("the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain").
The shows are an initiative launched by Natalia da Rocha's social upliftment and empowerment company Rainbow Worx based in Cape Town. Currently (2007) the performers only play in music bars and hotel lounges on the island of Majorca. They comprise several semi-autonomous groups of performers covering material by artists such as Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, George Benson and several boy bands.