Hearing the Stories, Spreading the Word
by David Tinning Ahead of the muziki wa dansi festival this weekend in Dar es Salaam, the Tanzania Heritage Project team had the pleasure of spending the... Read More
Pamoja kwa Muziki | together for the music
Posts about restoring, celebrating & promoting East Africa’s musical heritage
Posts about restoring, celebrating & promoting East Africa's musical heritage
Promoting Tanzania’s Musical Legends
Every Thursday night at Wantanshi Afro Lounge in Oyster Bay, Dar-es-Salaam, maestro King Kiki and the Wazee Sugu Band perform until the early morning hours,... Read More
Kilwa Jazz Band
GV Vinyl The GV vinyl records became popular in so many parts of Africa and propelled the rooting of contemporary music in Africa to date.... Read More
Scenes from the Life of a Tanzanian Musician
11 February, 2012 Leo Mkanyia, a Tanzanian musician with an open face, quick smile, and deep laugh, walks the narrow alleyways of Stone Town, Zanzibar... Read More
“Music and Memory”: THP Hosts Artist Seminars
In July and August of 2015, THP organized artist seminars held at the school under the banner of “Music and Memories”, in which Tanzanian musicians... Read More
Tucheze dansi (let’s dance)!
From TanzaniaHeritageProject.org, children dancing “kiduku” at the Leo Mkanyia show during the 2012 Sauti Za Busara (Sounds of Wisdom) music festival in Stone Town, Zanzibar.
In the Warm Heart of Africa: Synergies in Music Preservation
This is the story of how I traveled more than 1500 kilometers on 5 buses for 37 hours (each way) to spend three days in... Read More
A Pretty Good Crowd for a Friday
Ahead of their headlining appearance at Sauti za Busara festival in Zanzibar on February 15th, Nils von der Assen recalls a night dancing to Mlimani... Read More
Salum Abdallah and Cuban Marimba Band
Morogoro was one of the famous towns in entertainment back in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. People travelled from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro to... Read More
Has John Hall’s epic musical quest come to an end
Every music lover has experienced that thrill of deep connection with a piece of music, and the resulting desire to unearth every last detail... Read More
Leo Mkanyia
Leo Mkanyia playing live in Stonetown, Zanzibar. Video by Geert van den Boogaard in cooperation with the Tanzania Heritage Project.
THP interviews Yvonne Mwale
Yvonne Mwale Yvonne Mwale is a Zambian-born singer whose soulful cross-genre music blends Afro-jazz, world fusion, and reggae. After her parents died when she was... Read More