On Friday, the rest of the Windhund tour company – Anne, Anton & Felix Bennent, Hermine Ritter, Robert & Zoe Zielasko had returned to Austria on the same day – arrived in Nairobi. As for the traffic situation, it seems to be only a little better than Dar es Salaam. In the central business district there are a few more skyscrapers, though.

After a rest and a walk through the city center, the Windhund gathered at Nairobi’s branch of the German cultural organisation Goethe institute for the soundcheck. As soon as the doors were opened, a crowd of people came flocking in, filling the auditorium up to the last seat.

The Windhund were introduced by the Goethe Institute’s head, Johannes Hossfeld, and warmly welcomed by Christian Hasenbichler, Austrian Ambassador to Kenya.

The following concert was just magnificent – not only for the musicians. “It was a trip which I didn’t want to end!”, said one of the nearly 300 listeners attending the Windhund concert at the Goethe Institute in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. And indeed, the last concert of the tour turned out to be the highlight of the performances in East Africa: with a highly interested audience, fine acoustic conditions in an enclosed concert room, a high quality cello for Melissa and the Windhund with three weeks of East African music experiences behind them, the concert was a perfect end to their tour.

Thanks a lot to the hosts and the truly wonderful audience!

Here’s an excerpt of the performance, with Otto Lechner (accordion, voice), Melissa Coleman (cello) and Karl Ritter (guitar): nairobi_otto (mp3, 8 minutes)