Here are the reflections of Patrick Ondiek, our Singing Wells videographer. (He has camera envy!) Pato’s reflections of Singing Wells – March 2011 Day 1: Meeting my new love [CANON 5D CAMERA] It’s Sunday March 27th 2011 and I am taking my sweet time getting to the studio knowing that I…
WILLIE’S EXPIRIENCE WITH THE SINGING WELLS PROJECT DAY 1 The guys form Abubilla have just flown in and a small party is being held for them at Sippers Restaurant in Hurllingham with performances from among others Samba Mapangala, Winyo and Ayub Ogada. I say hi to Andy who is at the control desk recording the…
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…
This is the penultimate report back from the March Pilot. Our goal here is to review the project against our objectives and discuss lessons learned. Our final report will be a bit more fun, giving our high lights, low lights and some final pictures. 1. What were the original objectives for the pilot? We…
The Ketebul Music team is critical to supporting the Singing Wells project and proved their extraordinary capabilities during our March Pilot. Here’s the team: Tabu Osusa, Founder of Ketebul Music, on the Board of Singing Wells: Paul Kelemba (Maddo): The Chairman of Ketebul Music will help with all the media aspects of Singging…
Click here to go to the Abubilla Music website and the blog we wrote on Scott Matthew’s view on the Singing Wells project….
There’s good news to report about our fundraising goals. A donation from the The Abubilla Music Foundation of £25,000 has been allocated by the trustees to the Singing Wells project. This has meant that all expenditure on the development of the Ketebul Music website has been covered and we are now able to go ahead…
