US band strikes familiar note with Kenyan youth

The U.S Airforce Band performing with students. {PHOTO: COURTESY}

Jazz music filled the air last week in Nairobi when United States’ Air Force Band, based in Germany, came to perform their beautiful brass tunes to students from across the city.

Led by their conductor Josh Gates, the band had a wonderful time, first performing to the hundreds of youth who turned in the Korogocho slums. Korogocho is the home of the Ghetto Jazz Classics, an initiative of music diva Valentine Njoroge which has gained popularity by training youth to play Western music equipment.