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More about Donald Kachamba

April 20, 2008 – 10:40 pm

Following on from my last post about the Kachamba Brothers, I decided to try and find out more.
First of all, I found some interesting photographs of Donald and ‘friends’ jamming together. These pictures were taken by Rike and Henrik Bettermann when they visited Chileka in Malawi as part of their 1996/97 tour of West and […]

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Kachamba Brother’s: Musical Sunshine from Malawi

March 30, 2008 – 11:06 pm

The Voice of America web site is running a very interesting African Music blog - well worth checking out.
Matthew LaVoie has written a fascinating post entitled Musical Sunshine from Malawi which outlines how the Kachamba brothers, Daniel and Donald, discovered kwela to the city that is now Harare, but was then called Salisbury, and bought […]

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Babatoni, the Kwela Bass

August 4, 2007 – 6:57 pm

Back in June there was a blip in the visitor stats that was the result of a link to the Kwela Project from a post in the Banjoroots Yahoo group. The post was about Africa-American single-stringed instruments, and as well as mentioning the renowned ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik (who happens to play clarinet in Donald […]

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