I finally had an awesome weekend!
On Saturday I went with Grace to listen to a classical concert, the first one in my life, which made Grace gasp: "Where on earth do you come from?!"
We heard four symphonies by Prokofiev, Elgar, Beethoven and Smetana. The experience was just lovely!
Afterwards it was time for my first proper night of clubbing in Nairobi! Grace and I were joined by two locals, who drove us around and took us to all the most popular clubs in Westlands. We started from Havana, where they played the typical radio hits from the Western world.
At Tree House we enjoyed house music by a Swedish DJ, at Gypsies it was more reggae-styled music and at Black Diamond local radio hits and hip hop.
Biggest differences to clubbing in Finland: everyone drinks and drives, no cloak rooms, clubs are open until morning and you're allowed to smoke in-doors.
On Sunday my "music weekend" continued with the Koroga Festival at Arboretum park.
It was very well organized and nice, which was good since entrance was 2000 bob! (20 € is a lot here...).
Luckily the shows were in a tent, so we could stay for the whole day inspite of the heat.
I went with the intern at the embassy and her boyfriend.
There were three performers: Fena Gitu (Kenyan singer-songwriter), Nameless (one of the biggest hip hop artists in Kenya) and Yvonne Chaka Chaka (a South African singer). The picture here above shows the latter behind me - her show was amazing!
All in all, an excellent weekend music-wise!
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