Our First Concert!

Our projected numbers for our first concert were at maximum an audience of 200.  We were quite surprised when 1,500 children, teachers and parents showed up to Kawangware Primary School to listen to what we had learned in the past six weeks!  We performed the Twinkle Variations with each group and everyone played very well.  Although we haven't taught the children Twinkle yet or even told them that these were variations based on Twinkle, most of them had figured out how to play Twinkle by themselves and were practicing it before the concert.  We are looking forward to formally introducing Twinkle next week and incorporating the games they have been playing with the "whisper tube" to the long straight bows required for this new piece.  We are very proud of our children and how far they have come in just six short weeks.  This was a wonderful performance and the first time they had all played a musical instrument in front of a formal audience!

Asanteni sana watoto!

 Warming up in the storage room

Ready to play!