Veteran musician Giddes Chalamanda popularly known as AGide showed his energy once again on a cold Friday night when he excited the not-so-huge audience with his performance during the Coming to America farewell show held at Robins Park in Blantyre.<\/p>\n
The old-timer gave out his all, he sang and danced, dishing out among others his renowned songs Che Meli <\/em>and Liny <\/em>as well as Buffalo Soldier <\/em>\u2013 a track in which he talks about his desire to see America if he had much money.<\/p>\n People took time to splash some money to Giddes, who was in a black suit and matching black shoes during his performance. He also has cut his hair shot.<\/p>\n \u201cI am so thankful to people for the support and all I can say is I am ready for America,\u201d said Giddes, who received his air tickets from business guru Mike Chilewe on the night.<\/p>\n There was also a moment when Edgar ndi Davis performed the song Chalamanda<\/em>, which highlights the journey Giddes Chalamanda has travelled and that there have been musicians who have come and gone and yet the legendary musician is still singing.<\/p>\n The night opened with performances from acoustic musician Malala and then up and coming Lilongwe- female singer Martha before Giddes took over the stage amidst huge cheers from the audience.<\/p>\n After Giddes\u2019 performance came Edgar ndi Davis then Dan Lu with reggae group Black Missionaries closing the chapter.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a fantastic night, we would have loved to have a bigger audience but we still had a good audience and through our performances we showed a glimpse of what we will do in USA,\u201d said Njobvu.<\/p>\n He said referring to Giddes\u2019 USA trip that it was possible for one to realise their dreams.<\/p>\n Njobvu said they are expected to leave the country on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Kachere said it was exciting that Giddes would be visiting America and said they were looking forward to the best trip.<\/p>\n Whilst in USA, Giddes is also expected to be hosted by the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n Several people attended the show which spilled over to the early hours of Saturday and they included Mayor of the City of Blantyre Noel Chalamanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran musician Giddes Chalamanda popularly known as AGide showed his energy once again on a cold Friday night when he excited the not-so-huge audience with his performance during the Coming to America farewell show held at Robins Park in Blantyre. The old-timer gave out his all, he sang and danced, dishing out among others his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26887,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26882\/revisions\/26887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}