Central Music Association receives a certificate of registration from the National Cultural Commission

The three-day Central Province music festival concluded yesterday on a high note as the organizers’, the Central Province Music Association received a certificate of registration from the National Cultural Commission to host the festival annually.

The first-of-its-kind festival showcased the diversity and creativity of the up-and-coming musicians and legends from the province.

The festival also displayed the power of Central Music uniting people not only from Central but the country as a whole.

After receiving the recognition from NCC, the festival will now be hosted annually.

National Cultural Commission executive director Steven Kilanda has thanked the Central Music Association for hosting a successful three-day musical extravaganza.

“This is the way forward. There are a lot of musicians in the country and the music industry itself comes under the National Cultural Commission but we cannot support them individually,” Kilanda said.

“We want them to create a platform like this [CMF] and come together to form an association in which Central people have done it through the CMF.

“We [NCC would like to congratulate and thank Central Music Association and the people of Central Province for coming up with this initiative.”

The Music Industry falls under the National Cultural Commission, and Mr Kilanda is delighted Central Province has set up a Music Association that drives musical agendas in the Province.

“We developed a policy in 2019 and was launched by the Prime Minister in 2022 and now we put central music officially under this policy,” he said of CMA.

The National Cultural Commission also presented a cheque of K30,000 for the purchase of musical instruments for the Association.

The momentous three-day festival marked a significant milestone in the cultural landscape of the region as musical artists and the people of the Province came together to celebrate the power of music.