Experience palmwine and highlife music live with the Legon Palmwine Band at Alliance Française, Accra.
This full concert captures the sound, groove, and communal spirit of Ghanaian palmwine music.

Recorded live at Alliance Française Accra, this performance brings together classic palmwine sensibilities, highlife guitar language, vocal storytelling, and a collective groove.

The Legon Palmwine Band draws on Ghana’s palmwine tradition while engaging contemporary performance spaces and audiences, presenting palmwine as a living performance practice and as heritage.

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Chapters
00:00 Opening welcome groove
00:40 Akukɔ mbɔn (Agya Koo Nimo)
02:40 Tahinta (folktale)
04:00 Nkitinkitinkiti (folktale)
05:20 Wɔgb jɛkɛ (Amandzeba)
08:12 ɔtonkrowa (Legon Palmwine Band)
11:00 yɛrefrɛfrɛ
12:00 Ashikele (George Jara)
15:00 No woman no (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
18:50 Me ne woara (Legon Palmwine Band)
22:20 Bosoe (Joe Mensah)
24:05 Substitute (Gregory Isaacs)
25:38 Celebration (Osibisa)
26:44 Krohinkro (Kontihene)
28:40 Diamonds on the soles of her shoes (Paul Simons)
30:34 I and my shody are one (Praye)
32:15 Bisa (Pat Thomas)
34:32 Obi ne jɔle (Diplomats)
36:16 ɛtoɔ (Legon Palmwine Band)
39:50 Police abaa
40:50 Very soon (Fameye)
45:25 Encore for the road oo
45:40 ɔsɔbrɔkyrɛ (Dr Paa Bobo)
48:40 Do the dance (Eddie Khae)
50:05 ZormiZor (DopeNation)
50:40 Seke seke
51:32 Wo maame baako, Wo papa bebre (Oboy CJ)
52:00 Thank you(so much)

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