TinnyIf you are a music enthusiast who loves to hear how new frontiers are being cultivated, then there’s a unique concert waiting for you to experience at the National Theatre tomorrow evening.

I See A Rainbow Over Ghana is the title of the show that will feature music types that may look far apart and yet brought together on a common stage.

The occasion is the presentation and launch of a classical album of patriotic Ghanaian and African songs, composed by Kurt Merki Snr, a Swiss Industrial Consultant who has lived in Ghana for over 40 years.

Though written in classical format, the compositions will be given different interpretations by a wide field of classical, choral, hiplife, highlife and R&B musicians including the Tema Youth Choir, The National Symphony Orchestra, The Ghana Police Band, The Ghana Army Band, Tinny, Slim Busterr, Elivava and Justice of Stars of the Future fame. Some of the artistes will also bring on their own repertoire.

Kwesi Owusu of Creative Storm, the company organising the concert, told Showbiz Ghana is a wonderful place for the levels at which people patronise all shades of music.

“There are staunch followers of jazz, reggae, hip hop, soukous, techno, Afro-beat, Afro-Cuban rumba, country blues and several other styles. We want to bring as many of them as possible together for a good night of different shades of music.

Apart from the listeners, there are musicians who also easily move from one genre to the other. Violinist Kwame Thomas for instance, who will be playing tomorrow, is very much at home with classical as well as highlife music. We will have the chance to see how adaptive some musicians are in this country.”

The I See A Rainbow Over Ghana concert is definitely a special show to trace how far we have come, musically, over the last fifty years.

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