Central and Eastern Kenya: Day 0 – London/Nairobi Story
…mmunity and will be helping interview the groups (e mail: gregtendwa@gmail.com) Lewis Koome (Video 3), who is from the Meru ethnic community and has been our primary contact person to support this trip (e mail: lkoome2000@yahoo.com) Raphael Sipalla (Audio 4) our ‘Influences’ artist (e mail: ruffmaud@yahoo.com) We will be interviewing them throughout this trip to provide additional color to our Field Reports. We spent our Saturday packing and prepa…
Kenya’s Amazing Musical Instruments News
…instrument played with a bow, whose notes are created by finger pressure against the central stick, producing the effect of ‘fretting’ notes. Watch here as the Aloka Ohangla Group plays “Nyar Karapul” (the Orutu is on the far left): Nyangile The Nyangile is a Luo instrument whose name literally means “box.” To play it, a musician holds two metal rings called “ogeng’”, one in his right hand, one with his right big toe. Both are placed on a wooden…
Interview: fusion band Ndoto Afrika News
…g an artist in Nairobi? If hell has an alias, then call it Nairobi – any upcoming artiste. But nothing is easy the world over, for anyone. Music is a huge challenge and if you venture into it with a high expectation of becoming an overnight millionaire or celeb, then you are in for a rude shock! There are so many artistes fighting for an audience space and what’s making it twice difficult is that you have to compete with international foreign bran…
Before They Pass Away News
…portant than ever to understand, respect and celebrate the world’s indigenous cultures and remaining tribes, before it’s too late. To find out more information about Jimmy’s work visit http://www.beforethey.com/. Do you know of a music group that Singing Wells should be working with? Tweet us or Facebook us with your ideas. Photos: by Jimmy Nelson…
Our Pain, Your Gain.. Story
…We wanted to find a shady spot to record the Sagat Traditional Dancers during our trip to the Rift Valley. But we ended up recording on top of hill in the blazing sun, overlooking the baking country side. But it made for lovely photos….
Singing Wells is on Bozza! News
…heir fans throughout Africa. The platform is available to emerging and established artists from around the continent and can be easily accessed by visiting www.bozza.mobi from mobile phones and PCs.” Thabiso Mohare, Head of Brand & Marketing…
Current Leading Figures News
…2004). For Odwar, creativity is the best way to help Northern Ugandans overcome this hardship, “In times of trouble, art has helped us to come to terms with our situation, to express our hopes for the future and to keep alive the artistic values of our culture.” It is especially applicable to the areas that the TAKS Centre helps, as “Creative art is important to the people of Northern Uganda. They have a rich cultural heritage of music and dance….
Music Depositories and Archives around the World News
…commercially syndicated world music show now heard internationally on 170 commercial and non-commercial stations. It is fantastic to see a World Music Label with such far reaching success, not only proving that traditional music in Africa, and around the world, can be commercially viable but also acting as a vessel through which people can access this music. To purchase their CDs, you can either order online or, if you live outside the US/Canda,…
A History of Recording East African Music News
…omusicology.org/?Prizes_Wachsmann http://www.musicology.ucla.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1279:wachsmann-klaus&catid=93&Itemid=226 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Wachsmann S. Nannyonga-Tamusuza, T. Solomon, 2012. ‘Ethnomusicology in East Africa: Perspectives from Uganda and Beyond’. Kampala: Fountain Publishers David Fanshawe http://www.africansanctus.com/index.htm http://www.fanshawe.com/index.html Mary K. Oyer http://www….
Promotion of Batwa Culture/Music: UOBDU report Nov 2013 News
…nda . Therefore this report indicates the procedures used by UOBDU tourism committee that executed the work of purchase and designing the costumes and instruments for all the six groups. On 7th January 2013 the team identified the two service providers who were used by the organized before to design T-shirts and wrappers clothes for UOBDU dancers. On 18th January 2013 both service providers delivered their work to UOBDU and receive their payments….
Report from Womex 2013 News
…rk with if we venture to Uganda. Find out more about the film here: http://www.sweetdreamsrwanda.com/ New Friends at the festival We met a lot of new friends – as that was the point of our being there. We were spreading the word of the project and its aims and objectives, with listening stations for passers by to listen to the music we had recorded. We had a few instruments from our collection on display, and some even got played by some of our…
The Key to Sustainable Aid in Africa? Perhaps we should follow the music. News
…e last 3 decades by war; the song is Kica Watimon Nining: These songs keep communities together. Sometimes, these songs keep communities apart, with songs of peace that make warring tribes pause (see War Dance). Many of these songs and dances are written for the night, where the shadows of dancers around the fire, fill the children’s dreams with images of hunters and lions, demons and saviours, darkness and light. Supporting tribal music helps mai…
The New Singing Wells website News
…curate more albums. You can listen to each of the albums in full and then purchase them in the knowledge that all of your money will go back to the performer, wherever possible. Search facility We’ve added a search facility so you can easily find the information you’re looking for. And finally… Please get in touch with us via Twitter or Facebook and let us know what you think of the new site! Our thanks go to Wes Burden and the team at Nebulo Str…
Group of the Month – Watmon Cultural Group News
…and at the Entebbe Airport Guesthouse, where due to the generosity and patience of the manager Jan Willem and the other guests, we set up a recording studio in the garden. You can join us on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/singingwells and on Twitter here: http://www.twitter.com/singingwells – if you do tweet any links, please use the hashtags – #gotm and #singingwells We’ll update this page with any new items we add to the site over the c…
A quick summary of the Singing Wells Project News
…prattled on. So, I came home, woke early and decided to tell the stories again but this time with music. I do hope you enjoy. The good news is you can ‘turn me off’ if you need to get on with your life. My poor friend never had that chance… Forgive me, but here are 10 things I would like to say about Singing Wells…. 1. Singing Wells is all About Ensuring that others can hear about the Macedonia Band: We’ll provide background later, but let’s stor…
Promotion of Batwa cultural music: UOBDU report March 2013 News
…at Travelers Rest Hotel and other places of interest around. However as a community that has no other income, anything they work for is for buying food for their families since they stay in town with no land. MPERWA and KABAHENDA group Both communities are slow and this has caused them remain behind in performance and making savings especially from their cultural performance but the group can easily be mentored and catch up. Apart from being sl…