Get ready for a night of Afro-fusion
The live music scene on TZ is growing with more and more people looking for an authentic African music experience combining creativity with entertainment and most importantly, celebrating our diverse and vibrant African cultural heritage. The latest offering on this exciting journey is the East African Vibes Concert (EAVC) to be held this Saturday at the Nafasi Arts Space and promises to be a the first of its kind, and aims to unite East Africans through music, comedy, dance and other art forms.
Ayeta Wangusa, executive director at Culture and Development East Africa CDEA , the main organizer of the event, says that she is very excited to have to opportunity to bring household names such as Sarabi Band to TZ. “Sarabi East African’s biggest conscious music band and new face of Afro fusion music in Kenya, that is calling for open and accountability governments, social justice and public action, Erick Omondi, the funniest man in East Africa, Santuti Safari, an East African movement promoting new vibes from rural East Africa that have refined to meet the global market standards and our very own Grace Matata Leo Mkanyia’s Swahilli blues as a way of promoting East African social cohesion through music,” she says. Ayeta promises that this Saturday night will be a magical one full of laughter, Afro Fusion ambiance, peace, love, one East Africa!
The concert is not just a once of event, CDEA plans to have an annual EAVC concert in order to promote emerging East African and TZ musicians and artists. Furthermore CDEA plans to provide TZ musicians with a solid platform to reach a wider audience and an opportunity to air on Midundo Online radio. Therefore the concert is also being used to launch CDEA’s Arts Space to the public and Midundo Online Radio which is available via “google play store” as well.
SARABI is Swahili for Mirage, the word also means, imagination, vision and creation. Sarabi Band was formed in 2005 and has in the recent years proved to be one of the most talented Afro Fusion Band in Kenya. The Band is made up of 8 young Men hailing from the East lands Slums of Nairobi and they started playing music at an early age of 11 years. Their music is influenced by the everyday happenings and they try to create a Sound Picture that vividly represents their society’s every day journey.
Eric Omondo, Kenya’s comedian and golden boy started his career, under the tutelage of Churchill. However, his ambitions were grand and they saw him leave to set up his own show, Hawayu after which his comedy grow from strength to strength.
