What an amazing music festival. Acts from all over east Africa, people from all over the world, with two new fantastic friends...life couldn’t get much better. Music ranged from traditional to more modern works but everything was so incredible to watch. It’s not like being at any American concert or festival...there are no special effects, no stage changes even between acts, no frills, just pure talent on stage for the masses to enjoy. It was incredible. One of the coolest parts was getting to show off our resident status with resident festival badges that we wore around all weekend. Yep that’s me...a resident of Tanzania...no big deal ha! It was great. The second coolest part was seeing a ton of people that we knew from Bagamoyo at the festival. So not only did we have badges that said resident but we felt like residents because we knew our way around and there were so many familiar people around.
My favorite performance of the weekend was Muthoni The Drummer Queen from Kenya. She sang, she rapped in English and Swahili and sometimes would alternate between both in the same line, she played the drums, she danced, she made the crowd interact with her performance by dancing and singing along...she was incredible! In the middle of the act she gave a mini speech to introduce her next song all about believing in your dreams. She asked the crowd, “How many of you know those people who have boring jobs that they hate and all they really want is to go and follow their dream?” A bunch of people put their hands up and she goes “Don’t be one of those.” The conviction in her voice made you really believe her, it made you believe that she was following her dreams and that she really wanted everyone in the crowd to follow theirs. She was so great!
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