Lake Turkana Cultural Festival 2011 News
…o allow them to undertake the trip to this remote area of North West Kenya, 800 km from Nairobi and home to the Turkana and Samburu tribes and the original ‘singing wells’. When Steve Kivutia (Ketebul Music) presented the idea of recording music at the Festival to the AMF, it seemed a perfect fit with the objectives of the Singing Wells project and the trustees were happy to approve a grant to cover the costs of travelling to the Festival with the…
More Ketebul voices…Steve reports from the field News
…billaMusic The three of us then had dinner at Diani Campsite, a short distance from the hospital, and then drove back to the hotel. Everyone had retired to bed apart from Maddo, Deche, Willie Bembe, and Jesse. We joined them for a few tuskers before Deche and Jesse went out for a night in Diani. We had an early departure planned for the morning; we had to be in Nairobi at 7.00pm for a meeting with one of our prospective donors, so we soon all reti…