{"id":581,"date":"2014-02-04T20:36:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T20:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/?p=581"},"modified":"2017-10-06T17:09:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T17:09:45","slug":"dayudigili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/2014\/02\/04\/dayudigili\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayugdigili"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching up:<\/p>\n

On Saturday we zigzagged down the road from Gushegu toward Zamashegu.\u00a0 The road is wide, sufficient for three trucks to drive in parallel.\u00a0 However, there is usually only one good path.\u00a0 Flying along at 60-80kph does not give enough time to always guess correctly, and Nathan levitated out of his seat and smacked his head on the roof of the truck on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n

Several miles south of Zamashegu we turned West into the bush.\u00a0 The electrical lines follow the main roads, and within moments we entered a land where strong calloused hands build homes, plant crops, and wash clothes.\u00a0\u00a0 Our destination was the village of Dayudigili.\u00a0 Larger villages have a government-built concrete school building with 4 to 5 classrooms.\u00a0 The building is always open.\u00a0\u00a0 Rough-hewn wooden desks face a blackboard painted on the concrete.\u00a0 On Sundays, the classrooms become a church.\u00a0 Today, however, the rooms will be a recording studio.\u00a0 As we setup, curious children peek in, eyes wide.<\/p>\n

Kevin and Nathan test the room for sound dynamics and we setup the microphone on my tripod with an elastic strap.\u00a0 The choir is cautiously smiling, nervous, and looking at our equipment a bit of apprehension.\u00a0 We set the drums up outside the building, under the porch, knowing they would deafen us in the small classroom.<\/p>\n

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Sound check\u2026. The choir\u2019s energetic singing and thunderous clapping overwhelms the microphones and has us all laughing.\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 Wonderful, but we can\u2019t let them clap.\u00a0 We tried to limit it to 4 people clapping\u2026. Finally we had to select three people who clapped like a polite dignitary on the heel of their hand to get the balance of the singing and clapping.\u00a0 We had to coach the men of the choir to sing out a bit louder, but their praises were fantastic.\u00a0 They had three different callers, each with about 2 songs.<\/p>\n

Moms sung with their babies snuggly tied to their back.\u00a0 When infants started to squeak, the moms would loosen the cloth, spin the baby to the front, and nurse them while singing — never losing a beat.\u00a0 Then, when baby was happy, they got spun back around and cinched up. Wonderful.\u00a0 Since mommy modesty is unknown here, I don\u2019t have any pictures of the choir singing :-)<\/p>\n

We did eventually try the drums… but had to move them another 15 yards into the field next to the school :-) However, it was inspiring, and the choir sang much more energetically with their drums pounding out a wonderful beat.<\/p>\n

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Just magical!. <\/p>\n

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Catching up: On Saturday we zigzagged down the road from Gushegu toward Zamashegu.\u00a0 The road is wide, sufficient for three trucks to drive in parallel.\u00a0 However, there is usually only one good path.\u00a0 Flying along at 60-80kph does not give enough time to always guess correctly, and Nathan levitated out of his seat and smacked … Continue reading Dayugdigili<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}