ONE FINE DAY presents Dear Reader & Pilocka Krach feat. One Fine Day Music Kids

Every day at regular intervals a train rushes noisily right through the centre of Kibera, Nairobi, the largest slum in East Africa. In 2015 South African singer-songwriter, Cherilyn MacNeil AKA Dear Reader, traveled to Kibera with the charity, One Fine Day, to do a song-writing workshop with kids living in the slum. Together they created the song, “Smoke Machine”, creating beats out of field-recordings they recorded in Kibera, and singing in English and Swahili about the train that runs through the heart of their home.

This first song was the beginning of a new project for One Fine Day, the idea being to regularly bring musicians from all over the world to Nairobi to work with the kids and create music together. The sale of the music and performances at benefit concerts could then generate income to help support the weekly arts clubs that take place in various slums in Nairobi.

And so in February 2018 musician and producer, Pilocka Krach, traveled to Nairobi to write another song with the One Fine Day music club. Due to political unrest in Kibera, Pilocka had only 3 days instead of the planned 6 to create the song, “Hands in the Air” in a dusty school classroom in Kibera. Here the children worked feverishly on their lyrics and practiced the choir parts and on the 4th day they went into studio to record their song.

“Smoke Machine” and “Hands in the Air” will be released on 1 June 2018. All proceeds of album/song sales will go to furthering the work of One Fine Day in Nairobi. For more information on One Fine Day visit www.onefineday.org