Pajoto (DingiDingi/Youth) Group
…Music of the Acholi Acet, Northern Uganda…
Oriang’ Kinene Group
…Music of the Acholi Acet, Northern Uganda…
Rubanga Kingdom Awach Boys Group
…Music of the Acholi Paibona Tugu village, Awach, Northern Uganda…
Ker Kal Kwaro Group
…Music of the Acholi Paibona Tugu village, Awach, Northern Uganda…
Joginda Boys Group
…Music of the Luo Aluny Village, East Alego, Kenya Group Leader: Organda Joginda…
Anyim Lac Group
…Music of the Acholi Paibona Tugu village, Awach, Northern Uganda…
Aloka Ohangla Group Group
…Music of the Luo Aluny Village, East Alego, Kenya Group leader: Otieno Aloka…
Waroco Tewaro Group
…Music of the Acholi Paibona Tugu village, Awach, Northern Uganda…
Ben Kisinja Group
…Music of the Kalenjin Kapsokwony, Kenya …
Muungano Kayamba Group
…Music of the Mijikenda Group Leader: Futuma Ali Mwacherure. Performers: Ali Bora Kopo, Binti Amadi, Chimetse, Mwanamtiti, Mwana Harusi, Nyaishi Dawa, Msindeni, Nkuria Saga, Mwana Kombo, Nchno…
Kijaruba Group Group
…Kijaruba Group are a group part of the larger Bigilia Group. We met them on our 2017 field trip to Tanzania. You can read more about them on the Bigilia page here….
Day Three: Bungoma Town to Kakamega Story
…orms. So we returned to Santa Maria Resort to record him the next morning. And the weather was sunny and crisp, following the previous evening storms. First, Wilbert told us the history of the band. The band, Bungoma Roots Band, started in 2005 when all the members were young men at the Kumugui Secondary School, in the Michimeru Village. Wilbert and his school friends formed a band and competed with other school bands. They were quite good and had…
Adungu Instrument
…ged instrument we encountered in Northern Uganda. We also recorded an Adungu group in Kampala, as we passed back through on the way to Entebbe. It is an arched harp instrument with between 7 and 10 or more strings. They vary in size between smaller instruments, played close to the body and the larger bass adungu, on which the player can sit. The sound box is commonly covered in animal hide, and is also at times used as a percussion instrument…
Instruments Introduction Page
…he UK. Where we find an instrument that we have not seen before, we make sure we record it, photograph it and research it. This page features a selection of the instruments we have found so far on our travels. The instruments are tagged by their ethnicity, their recording location and the type (simply broken down into Stringed, percussion or wind at present). This also makes it easy to find links between instruments – the Rigi Rigi and the Oru…
The Singing Wells podcast #5 Podcast
…Edition 5 of the Singing Wells podcast is here – with a bit of a catch up on the latest news from the past 12 months of the Singing Wells project. Click here to download Podcast 5…
Fadhilee Itulya Staff Profile
…t find the guitar-plucking amusing, especially when he wanted to listen to the news on radio. After high school he worked as a construction worker to fend for himself. Meanwhile he mastered his guitar, volunteering to teach kids music at the neighbouring Soweto slums. He continued offering private guitar lessons even after joining the University of Nairobi, where he is studying International Relations and Diplomacy. His first break in professional…