Music Crossroads Malawi has said that this year\u2019s Malawi Music Camp project lived up to its billing in that the participants learnt a lot and later showcased their talents.
\nMusic Crossroads Malawi Director, Mathews Mfune, said the camp held at Music Crossroads Academy in Lilongwe ended yesterday on a high note with the battle of bands.
\n\u201cSimply put, this year\u2019s Malawi Music Camp project surpassed all our expectations. We are now looking forward to the next camp,\u201d Mfune said.
\nThe camp started on Tuesday and ended yesterday.
\nMfune said five bands that were put together and trained by band managers from Peace Corps and Music Crossroads competed yesterday.
\n\u201cThe results were amazing. Many of the young people had their first experience on stage with professional sound set up and performing to an audience. We could see them in tears of joy and how quickly they gained confidence,\u201d he said.
\nMfune also said that the battle of the bands was spiced up by other performances from among others, Hear Us Children from Music Crossroads and Zathu Band from Girl Effect.
\nHe said that all the performances on the day were also recorded live by Music Crossroads Recording Studio For Life 1 and that each participant went home with the recording on a flash disc.
\nThe Malawi Music Camp is a collaboration project between Music Crossroads Malawi and Peace Corps that brings together 30 youth participants, half of which are a part of the Music Crossroads community and half coming from the Peace Corps volunteers sites into a week-long camp.
\nMfune said during the camp, the participants are trained in Malawian music, songwriting, music structure, theory, stage performance, music entrepreneurship and copyright issues.
\nHe also indicated that the students are put into bands and asked to arrange an original song around the chosen themes.
\nIn addition to the music training, Mfune also said that the participants are also taken through other critical topics such HIV\/ Aids, gender equality, climate change and women empowerment.
\nHe said that for one to participate in this project he or she has to apply through Music Crossroads or Peace Corps and that selection process is undertaken to identify the deserving participants.
\nThe project targets young musicians below 25 years old with great potential and aspiring to take music as a career adding that this is an annual programme that takes in equal numbers of girls and boys.
\nAccording to Mfune, this year they received a total of 105 applications from which 30 were selected to attend the camp.
\n\u201cWe had 15 girls and 15 boys from Mzimba, Rumphi, Mchinji, Dowa, Ntchisi and Karonga among others,\u201d he said.
\nMfune said the project has been running for the past eight years.
\n\u201cWe realise the great impact the project is having across the country in shaping the musical talents and future music professionals. This is the one project that goes to the villages and unearths raw talent that we are proud of,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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