SCRIPT

Song Artist Lead

SECTION I
1. Intro song (Dminor) Band Alone
2. Matata mash up Matata All
(C minor) Epiano
Narration
Band: starts playing Wanna do my thing

Warambo: heh! Are you ready?

Band: Yeah!

Warambo: Yeah, 1, 2, 3, 4, Hey Everybody. Hear what I say. Do you know the reason/ why we
came out today? Were coming out for the second time, cause we wanna do our thing. So move
yourselves a little bit closer, come lets do our thing. Warambo: (introduce yourself/ character)

Singers: Wanna do my thingx4

Instrumental break- (sax solo, band break , goes into next Matata song)

Singers: Take me by the hand show me the way I can go ...ah ah ah ah (return to you)

Warambo: Imagine ...travel back with me, to the beginning, to a time when stories were told,
back to when music punctuated our lives like rain drops. From one season to the next babies
and funerals, famine and harvest, circumcision! weddings and war! Back to when we danced by
the fireside, when we raised dust, when we danced with spirit, when we danced naughtily with
pride..... remember our teen boogies URTNA, Music Times, Sundowner ....remember even up to
a few months ago, when we sang in protest bado ni mapambano , mapambano , mapambano,
hallelujaaaaaaah amen!! ...Do you remember?...Are you there my people?

Audience (yes)

Warambo: Through history our lives have been entwined with song.With the sounds of
chakacha, Kwaito , High Life, Mbanqanqa, Benga , Kwela, Rhumba, Genge, Soukoos,
Chimurenga, Bongo... Africas diverse music styles!!!....and today we want you to listen and
think about who brought these sounds to us. Today we say come. Come with us and remember
those who went before us: Come as we walk down river road, catch a bus to Harare, catch a
whiff of Soweto, as we drift back down to the Congo, sit in a club in Lagos, loop back to the
Kilimanjaro, go to Mombasa, sail across the ocean and back again. (pause) Feel free to dance, to
laugh to sing... In true African tradition we welcome you into our home.

Singers: Take me by the hand show me the way I can go .

So what is a legend? Who is a legend? Are you? (Point to person in the audience) ...are you?
(Point to someone else). Turn to your neighbour and ask them what is a legend?. But... as things
have evolved, I must ask what being legendary means today? Is a legend old or young?
Beautiful or wise? Great or a humble giant? Whats their story? What did they stand for? What
 did they fall for?....

Singers: Take me by the hand show me the way I can go ...ah ah ah ah (return to you)
3. Zombie (G minor) Jack intro Epiano Fela Don
4. Follow Follow (Dflat Minor) Fela Linda
Breaks inbetween
5. Homeless (B flat) Ladysmith Black Mambazo Vocals only

at tooloolooloo - Warambo comes in : as we sat together talking, it became evident to us

that a lot of these legends had music that spoke to the issues of their time... especially bad
leaders and bad politics. These issues are still with us. Ken Saro Wiwa said , We will all stand on
trial, for we have accepted double standards. We protect injustice and oppression, and with
these bad leaders we empty our classrooms, denigrate our hospitals, fill our stomachs with
hunger and elect to make ourselves slaves...- Uneducated. excluded. sick. destitute.
unemployed. 10 billionaires and 10 million beggars. NYS. Post election violence. IDPs.600,
000, homeless. (Silence). Vocals (homeless )

Warambo: This is where bad leadership usually leaves usBut this isnt where the story should
end.
6. Mr. Jailer (A minor)Epiano Asa Muthoni
7. Todii -Twende twende F Piano Oliver Mtukudzi/ Eric Don
Wainaina
8. Agolo A minor Angelique Kidjo Muthoni
9. Shaka Zulu theme song (Gsharp Margaret Singana Linda
minor)
E Piano
10. Naughty Flea, Click Song, Pata pata Miriam Makeba Don
B
INTERVAL (10mins)
Warambo: (welcome the people back) Now I want us to talk a little about love. Love adds to the
rhythm of life these legends knew it and they sang of it. They sang about African expressions
of lovewhich by the way, Africans we dont kiss in public, and this romance ya kupeana
flowers?! I remember back in the day when I liked a girl, I gave her a piece of choice fruit and
my favourite handkerchief, at which point she knew that I was hers! Nowadays . Hmmph,
well Im still single.
11. Palea Dobet Gnahore Kethi

12. Romeo and Juliet (D) Piano Lucky Dube Don

13. Ndawo Yami (B flat) Epiano - Zamajobe Muthoni
Transpose
14. Yamore (A flat) Salif Keita and Cesaria Don?

15. Nakupenda Wewe (Eminor) Safari Sound Band Band

16. Ndihamba Nawe (Weputi) Mafikizolo Kethi
D Organ

17. Malaika (G minor) Band intro Fadhili Williams Linda

 Money money money
18. Vulindela (F) Organ Brenda Fasi Kethi

Warambo: But guyslets be honest, sometimes thnigs dont go too well.

19. Bwana Nipe Pesa Super Mazembe* All

Twist F sharp
20. Franco intro (12600 letters) /Sina Kethi
Makosa
C Sharp Trumpet Intros
Narration: Kethi and DonSo Id like you to get up on your feet , if there's room and if you
know the song, sing along
21. San Fan Thomas - African Typic All, audience participation-
Collection D Vunja Mifupa - Samba Lingala quiz
Mapangala Lingala E Mashup - Loi-
Koffi Olomide. A
Concluding poem or narrative

Warambo: So who is a legend?

Look back and learn.
That they spoke about it all...love, politics, seasons, our land...
from cradle to the grave, they sang songs for Mama , they sang songs of war
Changing rhythms, changing beats, haunting melodies, harmony....
They put truth to music
Their songs speak on our behalf
Their songs stalk the oppressor
Their songs remind us to hold our loved ones close.
They remind us to reach for a higher standard, to pursue truth, faith, honour and
freedom, for all.
Legends go before us,
They touch our lives. They lift us up, make us dance, make us smile. Punctuate our lives
with hope.
In crazy mastery, they toil reminding us of who we really are, what have we have lost,
what we will gain, what we must preserve.
These legends ...they live not only in our past , some walk beside us every day.
We honour them today. We celebrate their mark on the history of song. Long live our
legends!
Thank you ladies and gentlemen

(Audience clapping)

LINDA: Wed like to thank our sponsors...Give glory to God!.Dr. Sylvia Noah and
Waruhiu Itote, Elizabeth Maina, Billy Warero, Ruth Njeri and.... without their support this
wouldnt have been possible, May God add to them . Wed also like to thank Kibugi for
sound , Phoenix theatres, Jakes rehearsal space, PPMC, the band- Noel, Jack, Tugi, Ken ,
Robert, Don, Wangeci and Muthoni ...if you need people to entertain you get in touch
with anyone of this bunch and thank you the audience for coming and spending your
evening with us, hope you enjoyed it. Well be celebrating legends at least once a year,
so look out for this and our other events. Have a goodnight!
(clap clap)

Band outro