The One With The School Band (4/30/2013)

The district offices recently gave Kafule some money to buy a few instruments so that we can start a school band.  So the headmaster bought the instruments last week and the new bank has been practicing ever since.  Yesterday was their inaugural performance.  Every Monday at morning assembly we sing the Tanzanian national anthem and this Monday we had an accompaniment.  The whole band was there; 2 snare drum and 2 bass drum players as well as Kivega and 3 other students each playing a recorder.  It was incredible! It took the whole first half of the song for them to find the same tempo and even then there were a lot of squeaks from the recorder section.  But my favorite part was the line in the song when only the form 4 boys sing (at least an octave lower than any of them should be trying to sing); the drums cut out but the recorders continued, it took a lot for me to keep from laughing out loud.  The students loved the performance and the band players couldn’t have been prouder.  I just hope it isn’t raining next Monday so they can play again!