Going to Uganda in All Around This World classes gives us the chance to enjoy some of our favorite forms of African music, such as Kadongo Kamu (“one guitar”), a modern genre that finds its inspiration in traditional Ugandan forms. In this video, enjoy the beautiful music of Bernard Kabanda, a Kadongo Kamu pioneer.
Some time in the 1840’s, American cigar companies began to pack their cigars not in large, bland crates but in small, highly adorned boxes. Some time about ten minutes later, some fellow sitting on a back porch thought to himself, “hey, I could make a guitar out of this!” A cigar-box guitar is, not shockingly, a guitar that uses a cigar box as its body. Shockingly, cigar-box guitars can be exceptionally beautiful. Those who craft well can make the guitar sound fantastic and look even better. In this video we hear a cigar-box guitar that sounds great. If you want to see cigar-box guitars that sound great are works of beauty, start with Snowden guitars. If you want to see cigar-box guitars that may or may not sound great but are certainly cool to see, search ’em up as made by the fine craftsfolk at Etsy.
We are revising the AllAroundThisWorld.com site — the information you’re seeking may still be here, but a lot of links are broken and details may be out of date. We are currently using a new (better!) site — ExploreEverywhere.com — to tell you all about our class offerings, our “pen pal” program and how to become one of our teachers, and will eventually be moving all the goodies from here over to there. So, GO TO THE NEW SITE!
