Marvelous Deeds were on Saturday skeptical about how their first concert at Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe would turn out.<\/p>\n
This is a venue which has held performances of several international acts and, just the previous night it hosted renowned South African group Mafikizolo, who shared the stage with Tay Grin.<\/p>\n
And dubbed Marvelous Night, the show is said to have been marvelous and historical for the three member group which has in the past been holding shows at other venues.<\/p>\n
While some quarters felt the venue was too big for the group, Marvelous Deeds walked out of the venue after the concert on Saturday with their heads held high.<\/p>\n
They managed to raise close to K3.5 million through cash and pledges for their latest album Back to Sender. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cLet me be frank with you we had fears but sometimes you have to test the waters and take a risk and this is what we did. There is a very big change. We have gone completely corporate and we will be organising such shows,\u201d said group member Sanena.<\/p>\n Marvelous Deeds is made up of Sanena, Francis Phiri and Weston Chapwaila and the trio has been together for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n Sanena said they want to launch the album at Mount Soche Hotel in Blantyre.<\/p>\n \u201cA different audience attended this show and I can tell you that people were satisfied. Let me also say that we invested a lot to put up this show but we have managed to sort out everything and we also have remained with some change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The concert saw Marvelous Deeds as the headliners with The Great Angels Choir, Patience Namadingo and United For Worship Choir as curtainraisers.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough this show, we want to bring out something different to gospel shows and not the usual ones where you have a long line up and artists only perform a few songs each,\u201d Sanena said.<\/p>\n The concert saw United For Worship open the stage with a 45-minute set before Great Angels also offered a 45-minute performance.<\/p>\n Marvelous Deeds, as headliners, performed for close to an hour before auction and thereafter Namadingo took over the stage with Marvelous Deeds coming back to close the night.<\/p>\n The show is also said to have attracted several high profile people including Dr Ben Phiri, who was the guest of honour and got a CD at K500,000 during auction.<\/p>\n The other people who got the CD at K500,000 and above included former Cabinet minister Ken Kandodo and Bishop Abraham Simama.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were actually challenged by the guest of honour, Dr Ben Phiri, that we should be thinking of turning Marvelous Deeds into a company,\u201d Sanena said.<\/p>\n The group\u2019s fourth album Back to Sender, <\/em>which was recorded at One Heart Studios in Lilongwe by producer and musician Lloyd Phiri and Studio 88 by Evans Meleka is enjoying airplay in most local radio stations.<\/p>\n It has 10 songs which include \u2018Ndiyambilenso\u2019, \u2018Fulumilani\u2019, \u2018Akupanga Za Ine\u2019, and \u2018Lero Langa Si Mawa\u2019.<\/p>\n Their previous albums are Sanathane Nane, Matamando <\/em>and Muli Nane Cholinga.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marvelous Deeds were on Saturday skeptical about how their first concert at Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe would turn out. This is a venue which has held performances of several international acts and, just the previous night it hosted renowned South African group Mafikizolo, who shared the stage with Tay Grin. And dubbed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48236","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\/48236","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=48236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48241,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48236\/revisions\/48241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}