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Day 1: Saturday, 2017 February 18th Story

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…rtists to go in new directions. So, there will be chaos. We simply want to enjoy music and the cultural collisions we create are part of the fun. We also try to tell a single story on these visits. For this trip we are retracing the drums of Mzee Morris. We will tell his story as we go. So, we’ll tell you about these missions in these field reports, trying our best to record accurately the songs, performers and instruments. We welcome all correcti…

Central & Eastern Uganda: Day 4, Part 1 – Reflections Story

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…n the young. Inevitably, you then need to bring on the people to learn and enjoy this music. And here we had an interesting debate. Some of our palace musicians felt the young people didn’t care anymore. But it was Ben Nsumugo Ntabula who provided a wonderful concluding observation: “Every time we set up our instruments and play, the children come and the children dance and the children ask us to stay. We can’t say they’ve lost interest. All we ca…

Musisi’s Story, Part 1: The Fall of the Buganda Kingdom Story

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…rums and chose the quietest moment in the day to have us play, so he could enjoy the beauty of our sound. I loved my life and felt so proud being a drummer. I remember one performance where the King loved our song so much that he gave a bull just to the drummers to enjoy in a big feast. And then he asked us to play the song again and again. And this beautiful life all ended in a single night. I was sleeping on May 24th and sometime in the middle o…

Central and Eastern Kenya: Day 1 – Nairobi to Kiongwe to Muranga Story

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…ls. The market itself was nestled below a lovely hill of green, which stood 500 meters above us, stuck into the blue skies. We were here to record 4 separate women groups of the Kamba ethnic community, from the same villiage of Kiongwe, each of which would do 3-4 performances. Most of the groups performed with a Ileve (tin shaker) and Vilingi (tin whistle). The final group also introduced us to the Kilumi (drums). The Music Groups Twone Mbee The g…

Happy new year from Singing Wells News

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…the Singing Wells project overall. Here’s Tabu’s interview. 6. We surpassed 500,000 YouTube hits! In September 2015 we were delighted to see we had surpassed 500,000 hits on the Singing Wells YouTube channel. Our channel features videos from our trips across Kenya and Uganda, including visiting the tribes of the Kenyan Coast, Central and Eastern Uganda, our work to share the music of the Batwa community and the Luo community. We’ve told the story…

Singing Wells surpasses 500,000 YouTube hits! News

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…ra-special artist on our journeys and recorded their work. To celebrate our 500,000th YouTube hit, we’ve put together a selection of our most popular videos. We hope you enjoy, and please keep visiting our channel and sharing the traditional music of East Africa with the world. Recording Nyerere Wa Konde Music Club perform in Gede, Kilifi, Kenya on our Singing Wells Pilot trip in 2011. A brief collage of the story of the recording of the music of…

Discussions on music and culture with a young Kenyan News

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…l hope is lost for young Kenyans? Look, we aspire to a western life and we enjoy western music, but we have our own way of speaking in Kenya, our own slang – our own twist. There’s still some authenticity but it’s about mixes and making the most of these influences. We can’t go backwards but you could try and ensure that going forwards all is not lost for traditional music. How do you think Singing Wells could engage the youth of East Africa with…

From African Twist to Benga News

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…at Ketebul Music in Nairobi to record this set of legendary musical artistes, all of whom are now in their 60s and 70s and are critical to Kenyan music history. We are very proud of this unique album and hope you enjoy listening to the ‘old masters’. Our recordings are particularly poignant as Ochieng Nelly sadly passed away shortly after the making of this album. Read our report from the studio sessions here.  …

Ten More Singing Wells Stories News

…ound Africa you always pray a little to the gods above that Africans would enjoy the benefits of a few more responsible folks with power, in power. And then we ran into the Otacho Young Stars, one of the hippest and happenin’ Luo bands around (who we discovered and brought back the studios to record). Here is the most simple, but to me, one of the most profound African songs ever written. It is a simple song, a tribute to the local sugar factory m…

Music Depositories and Archives around the World News

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…g more than 100,000 copies each and several surpassing 400,000 3,000 book, gift, clothing, coffee and other specialty retailers in the US and thousands more internationally that play and sell its CDs CD distribution in more than 80 countries he company now has offices in 6 countries around the world, with the expansion of Putumayo International into South America, Asia, Africa and Oceania Putumayo World Music Hour, the first commercially syndicate…

A History of Recording East African Music News

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…century from this part of Africa — and that is a gift. It is especially a gift to the peoples involved, for the legacy as played by their forebears belongs to them.” ILAM has reissued, without modifications, on CD, Tracey’s Music of Africa Series Several albums can be bought on iTunes Klaus Wachsmann 1907 – 1984 Wachsmann was a German born English ethnomusicologist, who travelled in Africa in 1937 as a missionary, serving in several offices in th…

The Birara Batwa Community Story

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…medicinal herbs, small game – all the things the Batwa used to be able to enjoy when they lived in the forest. “Umwami” – In praise of God who gave the Batwa their homeland – the forest. Our encounter with the Birara Dancers did not end in Kisoro. We left Uganda and headed back to Kenya for a second week of field recordings (Music of the Luo) but we could not forget the beautiful voices of the Batwa music groups. So we decided to invite a group t…

Report from Womex 2013 News

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…the trade fair, and so left with a copy of the Singing Wells CD sampler to enjoy in the car journey home again. We then crossed to the tent to catch Scottish band Lau, who gave a stirring performance despite the poor sound in the tent arena. Films I visited the film screening room to see two of the films being shown – Encounter at the Cello Bienalle – by Myles O’Reilly – featuring the music of Dutch cellist Ernest Reijseger. Myles has a great eye…

A quick summary of the Singing Wells Project News

…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 story with the story of Uganda Land of Freedom. L…

Hannah interviews Sabina – Acet, Northern Uganda News

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…es within the group? Most of us only sing and dance, as most women do in Acholi music. I play the Uvure and sing because I can’t dance, as I had a serious operation 4 years ago. I can’t dig, dance or do anything physical, so I play the horn. This is a blessing and a gift from God because I could never play it before the war or before the operation, it is a gift from Him to help me heal. We also have the Rigi Rigi (tube fiddle, similar to the Orutu…