Sunday, June 10, 2012

A day at a Rwandan music festival...

Today on a whim we decided to tag along with Clever down to a GumaGuma Superstar 2... We really weren't expecting much, and with that mind set we were pleasantly surprised!
We arrived to find maybe 1000 people all congregated near the front of a relatively small stage, 10's of Primus flags scattered round and 4 Primus bars offering ridiculously cheap beer!
The festival was set to start at 2, but being Africa it finally kicked off at about half 3...
In the mean time we bumped into a few of the older kids from the Orphanage and once the locals had finally stopped staring they chatted to us too; it was all a very friendly affair!
The music kicked off and the crowd went wild! Hours of singing and dancing and chanting, it was incredible! At about 6pm after excitedly awaiting his arrival JAY POLLY come onto the stage and suddenly grown men turned into 12 year old girls screaming, shouting and jumping, make shift banners appeared and the whole thing got a little emotional...
Unfortunately we had to leave after a couple of songs to make sure we could get onto a moto before dark, but it was a cracking day...
I know the flights are a little expensive, but if you're thinking of a music festival next year, i'd highly recommend this one!

Over and out.

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