Anniversary Highlife Concerts Held In Brong Ahafo

Musical concerts have been held in some towns in Brong Ahafo to mark Ghana's 50th independence anniversary celebration.

The concert featured some of Ghana's top hi-life musicians, including Kweku Agyapong Danemah, alias Dr. Paa Bobo, Abriekyereba Kofi Sammy and Maxwell Boateng also known in Ghana's music circles as 'Teacher' Boateng.

Unity International Band and Uncle Sam Beachmann of Twilight Media Production.

Others also gave spectacular renditions at the concerts held at Seikwa, Wamfie, Japekrom, Berekum and Sunyani. Music lovers who thronged the halls for the concert were glued to their seats as they danced to the scintillating renditions of the popular artistes.

The event was however not meant for only lovers of highlife music as Isaac Wilson, a Canada-based young Ghanaian gospel singer gave a very good account of himself and won the hearts of most of the fans, as his performance threw them into frenzy.

Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Mr. Francis Mensah Twum, Chief Executive Officer of Synergic Systems, owners of the Asesedwa Music Production and event organizers, said the programme would be replicated in all the district capitals in the region. He said the rationale for the show in Brong-Ahafo was to highlight the region's rich potential human and natural resources, which he said, could be tapped for the creation of employment for the teeming unemployed youth.

Mr. Twum added that the programme was also to expose the region's potentials to the rest of the world, adding Dr. K. A. Busia, Prime Minister of the Second Republic, who was a native of Wenchi in the region had big dreams for the state as well as the region but these have not been highlighted".

He stressed the need to highlight all these for the socio-economic advancement of the region.

The CEO said the event was also designed to revive and raise the sinking status of highlife music and to help sustain cultural values, which he noted, were crumbling.

"Many hi-life musicians are dying as paupers and there is little of live performances. These initiatives would help create employment for them and raise the fallen image of hi-life music from which the youth can learn to keep the spirit on for generations yet unborn", he observed.