Thirteen Americans made the trip, including four high school students from the Boston area. Among them was 17-year-old Marina Miller.
“We started out in Nairobi,” she says. “We got a chance to meet with local musicians and listen to them play."
Children at the Divine Providence Children's Home in Kakamega, Kenya, examine a guitar.
In Kakamega, in western Kenya, the Americans presented a gift.
“We’ve gathered like 20 instruments,” says project coordinator Aaron Colverson. “They include acoustic guitar, electric guitar, acoustic violin, flute, clarinet, saxophone, also a trumpet and a trombone. We had some recorders and also an entire drum kit, lap tops and recording software."
Dozens of young Kenyans, between the ages of 15 and 30, took workshops offered by the group.
Berklee student David Chapman says, for some of the Kenyans, it was their first time seeing and touching such instruments. “Their music classes would just be them reading books about western instruments.
The workshops offered a more hands-on approach.
"We would lecture for a while and teach, everything would be very interactive,” Chapman says. “If anyone had any questions or wanted to play with instruments, we would always welcome that.”
The group also held workshops in orphanages and performed at a national music festival.
“When you put music in front of kids, it seems that their minds open up,” says project coordinator Aaron Colverson. “Music gives them a chance to express themselves through songs and writing the songs.”
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