Guitar Band Highlife I

Guitar Band Highlife I

• Ghana
  • 1930’s and 1940’s Kumasi Trio
  • 1950’s/1960’s E.K. Nyame’s (1927-1977) Akan Trio
    • Release over 400 records starting in 1951.

Notes:

Ghana

• Rural Areas - Kumasi capital of the Ashanti region Ticket Selling Entertainment
• Performed in local languages and adapted traditional proverbs and stories to current events.
• Sound constructed around two or three electric guitars
• 1930’s and 1940’s
  • Kumasi Trio - Guitar/vocals, castanets and clarinet.
• 1950’s/1960’s
  • E.K. Nyame’s (1927-1977) Akan Trio
    • First Concert Party: Combined Guitar band with comic theatre
    • Recorded on the Zonophone label
    • Release over 400 records starting in 1951.