Music of the Mijikenda: video playlist
In March 2011, the Singing Wells team travelled to the coastal region of Kenya for their very first field recording trip. The team recorded music from various groups representing the Mijikenda tribes.
In March 2011, the Singing Wells team travelled to the coastal region of Kenya for their very first field recording trip. The team recorded music from various groups representing the Mijikenda tribes.
Paul Kelemba (Maddo), Chairman of Ketebul Music, reporting back from the pilot programme….. When Tabu Osusa and I at Ketebul Music, along with our backers at Ford Foundation, set out to document Kenyan music genres from mid last century and offer them in easy to read, listen and view mediums to today’s audiences, young and…
In this blog, Steve Kivutia, Project Manager for Singing Wells, gives us his reflections of the March Pilot. We’ve added pictures and more importantly sound samples to his reviews, so well worth a listen! We are back in Nairobi after a week in the field recording material for the pilot phase of the…