Happy new year! We hope your 2016s have gotten off to a good start, and that you’ve been bringing in the year by listening to lots of traditional East African music. Before we start posting exciting news about the upcoming year, here’s a quick recap of what we got up to in 2015: 1. We went discovering…
I’m new to Singing Wells and I’ve spent the last few weeks listening to pretty much every song on the site, getting to know the amazing traditional music of East Africa! It was tough to pick, but for my first blog post I thought I’d share my top 5 songs so far. 1. Otacho Young…
During one of our long drivers through Central Uganda, Jimmy was able to interview Tabu about Ketebul’s activities in 2013.
The story of how Singing Wells started…. After two years of planning, the Singing Wells project was launched in March 2011 with our first field visit to Malindi to record the music of the Mijikenda. So, how did Tabu Osusa, one of Kenya’s most successful record producers end up in a remote Kenyan village, teamed…
Ayub Ogada features in the Diamond Jubilee song but he also performed in a global song for Singing Wells produced by Abubilla Music.
One of our favourites from the Batwa people of Kisoro….
Please take a look at the funding progress we have made here. Click on the image to download the PDF:
In this note, we provide an overview of the Singing Wells Project, the results of our March Pilot and next steps leading to our November sessions. We are pleased to report that the March Pilot confirmed the basic building blocks of the Singing Wells Project: a) mobile recording in the villages works and creates…
