Makoma To Welcome Easter
Apr 17, 2003
Easter weekend is here. As usual, promoters have jumped with a little greed on the business prospects the festive weekend offers - no crime at all.<br>
Easter weekend is here. As usual, promoters have jumped with a little greed on the business prospects the festive weekend offers - no crime at all.
However, although they are expected to line up their pockets with millions, in real sense at the end of it all, it will be the Ugandan music fans who will emerge winners. Thanks to the classy acts that have been lined up to entertain them starting tonight.
After gorging ourselves up with food during the day, those with mild manners and are not comfortable with music that punches one in the face, will flock to a new hot venue at Karim Hirji’s Hotel, Equatoria Parking lot where Oliver Ngoma will ingratiate us with a galvanising performance as we celebrate the Kabaka’s 48th birthday.
To ensure good sound, Hope Mukasa of Bava Studios who is promoting the concert, has rigged up a powerful PA system that will not only please us but also shake the insides of our stomachs. He also promises free seats for the first 5,000 fans at the venue, a variety of drinks and first class service that befits VIPs.
To ensure ample parking space for the visitors who will part with sh20,000, part of Kampala Road stretching from Bat Valley Theatre to Kampala Pentecostal Church, has been hired and will be sealed off from normal traffic.
Additional parking space will be provided at William Street that runs behind Hotel Equatoria and Bat Valley Theatre.
To spice up Oliver Ngoma’s show, the entire crew of the CBS Kaliisoliiso trio of Abbey Mukiibi, Kato Lubwama and Kayibanda have been hired to transfer their rib-breaking humour from radio to the stage at Hotel Equatoria.
Our home-grown artist like Lubwama, Jose Chameleon, Betty Mpologoma Ragga Dee, Immaculate Nabiryo, Nassan Bwerenga, Kabuye Semboga of Diamond Productions, dance hall sensations and Ragga Dee have also been lined up to please the crowd with their slick grooves before Ngoma comes on stage.
Remember Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi will also be enjoying the musical spectacle from an exclusive self-contained hut at Sabrina’s Pub.
Come tomorrow evening, all roads lead to Nile Hotel where Netherlands-based Makoma are expected to blow every one off their feet using the awesome Umoja sound system. Charges for the Nile Gardens have been priced at a pocket-friendly sh15, 000.
The Kora Award winners have won themselves a firm fan base in Uganda. Thanks to their catchy high tech pop-reggae beats and their hot, tightly choreographed, energetic dance moves. This means they will be performing before a large appreciative audience. To add on to this, Makoma members are self-confessed born-again Christians and proclaim undying love for Jesus Christ and God in their lyrics. Their style cuts across religion.
As they crowd tomorrow under manic-blinking disco-lights, they will also unveil a hot video featuring some clips that were filmed in Mukono during their first dates here. The clips will be beamed onto the giant video screens.
Jean Paul Samputu will be the opening act at Nile hotel Gardens. He is to serve the expectant crowd with a mixed grill of zouk and eye-catching Amalaba and Intore cultural dances from his native Rwanda.
On Sunday, Makoma go to Ggaba Beach for a family show where adults will pay sh5,000 and pull out an additional sh3,000 for the siblings. At Namboole, SC Villa fans will chance to watch their victorious SC Villa team tussle it out KCC for the Kabaka Birthday Cup.
For those whose tastes run into something harder like the exotic home-cultivated ragga and Kenyan manufactured hip hop First Street, Industrial Area near Club Silk and The New Vision Printing and Publishing Corporation will be the place to be.
Indeed this can only mean one thing — wide eyed teenagers and 20-year-olds in ill fitting wide jeans and T-shirts(boys) and skin-gripping jeans (girls). There will also be the security guards who resemble waitresses standing amid pre-recorded music beats.
Chameleon, Bebe Cool, Bobi Wine, some Tanzanian artists and some Kenyans Ogopa Djs and a master turn-tablist called DJ Pinye will be the main attraction.
Wacky MC Robert Segawa aided by MC Olanya of Capital FM will use the psychological skills that he learnt in Katigondo Seminary to cool down their tempers. Or simply holler for security when things get out of hand.
The Easter festival does not end on Saturday but continues on to Sunday. This festival will be graced by musicians Elly Wamala, Afrigo Band Mariam Mulinde and Mariam Ndagire who hope to conduct a smooth concert at Hotel Africana for ‘Kampalans’ who do not like walking away from the city centre. Ends
However, although they are expected to line up their pockets with millions, in real sense at the end of it all, it will be the Ugandan music fans who will emerge winners. Thanks to the classy acts that have been lined up to entertain them starting tonight.
After gorging ourselves up with food during the day, those with mild manners and are not comfortable with music that punches one in the face, will flock to a new hot venue at Karim Hirji’s Hotel, Equatoria Parking lot where Oliver Ngoma will ingratiate us with a galvanising performance as we celebrate the Kabaka’s 48th birthday.
To ensure good sound, Hope Mukasa of Bava Studios who is promoting the concert, has rigged up a powerful PA system that will not only please us but also shake the insides of our stomachs. He also promises free seats for the first 5,000 fans at the venue, a variety of drinks and first class service that befits VIPs.
To ensure ample parking space for the visitors who will part with sh20,000, part of Kampala Road stretching from Bat Valley Theatre to Kampala Pentecostal Church, has been hired and will be sealed off from normal traffic.
Additional parking space will be provided at William Street that runs behind Hotel Equatoria and Bat Valley Theatre.
To spice up Oliver Ngoma’s show, the entire crew of the CBS Kaliisoliiso trio of Abbey Mukiibi, Kato Lubwama and Kayibanda have been hired to transfer their rib-breaking humour from radio to the stage at Hotel Equatoria.
Our home-grown artist like Lubwama, Jose Chameleon, Betty Mpologoma Ragga Dee, Immaculate Nabiryo, Nassan Bwerenga, Kabuye Semboga of Diamond Productions, dance hall sensations and Ragga Dee have also been lined up to please the crowd with their slick grooves before Ngoma comes on stage.
Remember Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi will also be enjoying the musical spectacle from an exclusive self-contained hut at Sabrina’s Pub.
Come tomorrow evening, all roads lead to Nile Hotel where Netherlands-based Makoma are expected to blow every one off their feet using the awesome Umoja sound system. Charges for the Nile Gardens have been priced at a pocket-friendly sh15, 000.
The Kora Award winners have won themselves a firm fan base in Uganda. Thanks to their catchy high tech pop-reggae beats and their hot, tightly choreographed, energetic dance moves. This means they will be performing before a large appreciative audience. To add on to this, Makoma members are self-confessed born-again Christians and proclaim undying love for Jesus Christ and God in their lyrics. Their style cuts across religion.
As they crowd tomorrow under manic-blinking disco-lights, they will also unveil a hot video featuring some clips that were filmed in Mukono during their first dates here. The clips will be beamed onto the giant video screens.
Jean Paul Samputu will be the opening act at Nile hotel Gardens. He is to serve the expectant crowd with a mixed grill of zouk and eye-catching Amalaba and Intore cultural dances from his native Rwanda.
On Sunday, Makoma go to Ggaba Beach for a family show where adults will pay sh5,000 and pull out an additional sh3,000 for the siblings. At Namboole, SC Villa fans will chance to watch their victorious SC Villa team tussle it out KCC for the Kabaka Birthday Cup.
For those whose tastes run into something harder like the exotic home-cultivated ragga and Kenyan manufactured hip hop First Street, Industrial Area near Club Silk and The New Vision Printing and Publishing Corporation will be the place to be.
Indeed this can only mean one thing — wide eyed teenagers and 20-year-olds in ill fitting wide jeans and T-shirts(boys) and skin-gripping jeans (girls). There will also be the security guards who resemble waitresses standing amid pre-recorded music beats.
Chameleon, Bebe Cool, Bobi Wine, some Tanzanian artists and some Kenyans Ogopa Djs and a master turn-tablist called DJ Pinye will be the main attraction.
Wacky MC Robert Segawa aided by MC Olanya of Capital FM will use the psychological skills that he learnt in Katigondo Seminary to cool down their tempers. Or simply holler for security when things get out of hand.
The Easter festival does not end on Saturday but continues on to Sunday. This festival will be graced by musicians Elly Wamala, Afrigo Band Mariam Mulinde and Mariam Ndagire who hope to conduct a smooth concert at Hotel Africana for ‘Kampalans’ who do not like walking away from the city centre. Ends