 and it's called Kingsnake. Check it out, check out their page, if you ever get a chance to go along. Do you know what else I will definitely, well probably not this year, but I'll look forward to going to here the next year. Just love that bit of rock now and again, it just blows the car away, so well done, that's absolutely brilliant. But I'm telling you now, check out the video that I've done and it's just brilliant, it's a really good crack. We love the rock, we love the rock and roll. 13 minutes after eight o'clock and what's the night, is it Monday I'm forgetting the Monday nights and everything, hang on a second here. Yeah as you say, we're with you right through until 10pm as always and we say hello and we welcome to our very first guest on this Monday night sessions, the 21st of November and we say hello and welcome to future. Moio. Thank you Paul and all the listeners of Highland Radio, thank you very much for having me. You're very welcome, it's lovely to see you and thanks for dropping in. So your story, I was talking to you beforehand when we were outside and you're here about four months, you've moved from Zimbabwe, is that correct? That is very true, I'm from Zimbabwe, but before I came here I was in South Africa, which is a neighbouring country to Zimbabwe. Okay and you've moved here with your wife and your child? Yes sir. Settling in okay in these parts, yeah? Everything happy. Good, well that's the thing and tell me this and tell me no more. What was I going to say? You're a musician and you were a pretty successful musician over in South Africa? Of course, yeah, especially in Zimbabwe. Look my story of music starts way, way back in 1996 when we started as children going to school, so at the primary school we started as a soccer team. Then after I mean losing to opponents, yeah of course, then our coach who happened to be a teacher at the school as well called Mr. Lucius Nube, I said, you know guys, you better I mean change from I mean from soccer to music because it looks like you guys are losing. You can recall now as we sit here, there is a World Cup happening there in Qatar, so I mean you can imagine somebody saying, oh this team must rather change from soccer. To music? Yeah exactly, this is how we started singing 20 years ago I'm sure. That inspired your musical path then more so than your soccer path. Do you still play a bit of soccer? Of course, given a chance to hold and play better than Ronald and Miss. Do you? Yeah. Oh there you go, you're modest with it, aren't you? So your group over in South Africa was called Ammavinani. Of course, you tried. I thought, yeah, you tried. Do you want to give it a try one more time? Yes, you tried. Well done. I tried. My group is called Ammavevane. How many were in your group? 10 members. 10 members? All male members, yes. Oh very good. And where did you sing in South Africa? Did you sing locally or did you expand? Of course, it goes beyond locally. We sing from corporate events. We sing to wedding events, birthday parties. We sing in churches. We even comfort people. We have lost their beloved ones in funerals. We can sing there, of course, and we conduct some workshops from various places from schools to churches, individuals, communities, and large groups. Okay. Are any of your older members of your group here in Ireland with you or is it just you? No, no, no, it's just me at the moment. So you're a solo act now you're over here? I'm a solo but I carry them every time I go because I can't stop, I mean thinking of them because there's always their music in my head. Did you record much over there? Yeah, of course, we have got a couple of albums, yeah, of which and our, I mean our fans, they love, they love our music. Excellent. And from South Africa to here, it's a big step but you've brought your music with you because you are working currently with the Donegal Volunteer Center? Of course, here in letter Kenny, I was going to mention that it's amazing because I was received with warm hands by the Donegal Volunteer Center. From there we have managed to set up a local intercultural choir called the Newland Choir. Wow. So with people from more than eight different nations, it's so amazing, it's exciting, yeah. Excellent. Well, you haven't, you know, you're not here a long time you're starting to make a good headway on the music but what kind of music is the choir doing? Which choir? The Amavevani Acapella or this choir? This choir here, sorry, a bigger part. Of course, look with this choir what we're trying to achieve of course with the majority being ladies but we're trying to get them to sing what we call Acapella. Yes. All right but now having a situation whereby it's people from different nations, we go on to promote each and everybody's background, they bring their language here, we come up with something yeah, yeah we come up with something yeah but for now we are busy with Acapella music. See music travels through all nationalities doesn't it really? So it's a good way of bringing people together isn't it? Of course, they say music knows no boundaries. Right, we would love to hear you singing so you're going to do Acapella for us first? Of course and the first song you're going to do is the song that I'm going to sing now it's a gospel song called Reveal Myself and is this a song is this a traditional song or is it? This one is a gospel song as somebody who's a believer in God I'm a Christian so I felt like let me do a piece of this one. Brilliant, well we'd love to hear you when you're ready. For God so loved the world That isn't, that isn't His begotten Son Jesus That who ever, that who ever ta-la-la-la lives in Him Shall not die, shall not die, but lives longer He said I'm the bread that comes down from heaven I'm the bread that comes down from heaven I'm the bread that comes down from heaven I am the living bread Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Oh come to me You know I can still go on and on and on. That's brilliant. Thank you very much. Yeah look when I'm doing this now that's when I miss my dear brothers there. I remember all my my my acapella crew there, Slinganiso, Sam, Minlaki, Musa, Bonisim, Loiso, I'm mentioning their names Makosini, Ezekiel, Mafotla, you know I start to think of them. Yes of course as I sing now I can hear their different I mean vocals, their different keys coming in. So obviously singing the guy brings back a lot of phone memories. Of course. We got someone texted and said reminds me so much of Lady Smith Black Mambazzo. Did they say so? Fabulous yes indeed there they did so there you go that's a nice compliment. Of course. And you do have a connection to Lady Smith. Yeah yeah we have a connection with them but now we also love to remind all the fans that of course the founder of the Lady Smith Black Mr. Professor Joseph Shabalala passed on a couple of years ago but the good thing is his music, the music lives on because his sons and the other members are still taking it I mean to the world. So of course we have got a connection with them because we keep on listening to them as they are a great inspiration to what we are doing. You showed me a photograph of your own. I did show you a photograph where I was sitting with next to the legend. Yeah thank you. That was a big thing for you. Of course he told me personally I remember I asked him what must I do so that I could my group also could look like you he said just keep it going love your your guys keep them you know I've never told anybody now but I'm revealing that secret to you today Mr. Paul. Keep going yes keep going. Keep going never stop we don't say a mean to me here we just keep going. Of course. Keep going that's no true words keep going keep the music going. Right we're going to take an abrick we are live in studio with Mr. Future and he's got more music for us on the way don't go away Highland Radio Monday night sessions Monday night sessions in association with Blake's bar Letter Kenny 30 17th November Blake's unplugged the haunchos with John McGrory Neil McGrory and Brian Booner. 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brilliant and what can what does it say what happens there is you know your people come together and they get so much out of singing uh plus the fact that they're making up friendships that they might never have done so you're doing very well dad um you're you have a couple of gigs coming up here in donny gall you're you're doing the uh the christmas lights yes this friday night here in larry kenny yes tell us tell us what people can expect of course look um i mean with the irish context i'm told christmas i mean it's well celebrated here which is very good we also do the same back home there oh do you yeah of course but the difference maybe would be the songs that you sing here and the songs that we sing there but everything all in all it will be christmas celebration look uh for the upcoming uh letter kenny christmas lights i would ask um the audiences or the fans to come in large numbers and have a look at this newland choir here we'll be performing a few christmas carols they can expect those harmonies i mean music you know from different people you can imagine people from ukraine i mean uh uh poland um macedonia i mean there is a lot of countries involved and zimbabwe you know all singing a christmas carol that would be so amazing but it's lovely and you're looking forward to that of course i can't wait you have another gig then this is about one and it's in the angriene theater yes on the 11th of december so tell us about that that's uh i mean an indoor gig that's my one of my favorites again i would say um i look forward to it of course yes look uh with my choir some of them maybe it will be the first time i mean to perform in front of large audiences because i'm told that wall might be full of people so i think it's gonna be amazing if people want to go along um where can you get tickets from angriene theater itself yeah of course i would say uh uh they can go there and find and inquire more about about that okay yeah of course social media are you involved in social media like facebook and have your page at the moment i do have a personal page yes i mean on social media people who are looking for me they can search for future yes index index is in n dex mojo or they can search for my group amma vevane acapella amma vevane acapella or if they still find it difficult they can be they can contact the donegal volunteer center they can get leads yeah thank you do you enjoy that kind of work down there is it just singing you do down there already i do yeah singing is my life i do of course i can be having other things that i do as party time but music runs in my blood was music uh was music a thing at home growing up when you were smaller was it was music uh in your home i started music uh at the age of seven years started it started right inside the kitchen of my mom my mom is a singer she's still there she sings she used to conduct i mean sort of like some musical sessions after supper she'll start a song a church song and expect all of us myself and my siblings to come i mean join her she was the choir director oh seeing at home there so you know you're no choice of course yeah and she was screaming if you are very good so yeah well you know i said don't know harm i don't know harm i kept you i kept you in good stay did they say kept me moving well the plans what's your plans here um as regards going forward music workshops or music or yeah look um my plans here still uh i'm still four months but i i hope i'll be i mean uh integrating and meeting a lot of people and getting to know uh i mean what irish people i mean their context i mean their lifestyle you know but i look forward to i mean engaging in special schools or and individuals i mean churches and everybody who might love to get an idea of this type of music especially with african context you know yes even drumming sometimes other people they just love drumming not singing that's right so i can also pitch up there and see that's great you know i think i think future has a big future here in ireland and we look forward it looks bright it looks bright i have to say your name is amazing when i seen the name your name future i thought i'd never met anybody called future yeah look i'll tell you a story sometime back i used to work in a restaurant as a waiter a waitron here of course and most of the customers they wouldn't believe that it was my real name don't say to me what's your real name i said that's my that's my name yeah future very proud of it back to the future we would buy the future we would love to get uh would you do us an or a cappella one yeah of course that what's right this one what oh this is uh which one can i do oh let me do this one called chocholosa tell us a wee bit about this song for us is it a hum or is it a song yeah it's it's a work song a work song okay yeah many musicians around the world i mean uh have learned about the song and they are singing it we are told it started way way back during the 1960s when i mean migrant workers were working deep down in the minds of south africa searching for gold yeah and so they were addressing all those i mean circumstances happening there law they were paid poor salaries poor working conditions i mean long made to work for long hours etc etc and they were traveling the most important thing about the song they were traveling they used to travel to and from work using a train so the train was going forward keep going forward so that's the name of the song chocholosa lovely so we are also singing it this way oh look i've taught the new land choir as well as we sing it back with my guys the the amafiv and a capella so i'll just take one or two from both choirs look lovely we're ready here you when you're ready chocholosa chocholosa chocholosa from the mountains on the train from Zimba keep on going keep on go home the mountains on the train from Zimba let me do it in Irish come come come how does Irish come in let me remind myself I come on I can't brilliant absolutely brilliant thanks for sharing that with us really appreciate that and see you that the style of music is something else and it just needs to be brought here and spread the word that's what it's all about we're gonna take a quick outbreak again and we're back with the final track from Future Mojo and I will tell you once more again about the up-and-coming gigs and this Friday night the Christmas switch on lights here in the UK is going to be an amazing night don't go away Monday night sessions in association with Blake's bar letter Kenny Sunday 20th November Sunday evening session with swamp shag shakers featuring Shaq Mikhail and James Graham trad session every Monday night all musicians welcome oh looks like last minute Liam is in a spot of bother he missed out on saving up to 50% on Expressway coach tickets and guaranteed seats by not booking them early enough online but not to worry Liam Lucy booked them in advance instead now all you have to worry about is not forgetting 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Highland radio with Paul McDevitt yes it is and it's just come in 22 minutes in front of nine o'clock on a Monday night you're very welcome and you just churned our way don't forget you can check us and follow us live on highlandradio.com and our first guest tonight has done two acapella tracks for us and the we just want to share with you the up and common event on this December the 11th and it's down at the Angrenan Theatre here in Lerner Kenny and it's the D M E P Christmas concert and it starts at five p.m. ticket price is 10 euro under 18s five euro and a family of four 25 euros so that's a brilliant so contact details for the event at theangrenantheatre.com or just call in and see them so well done. Future thank you so much for coming up to us tonight we really appreciate it. We wish you great success going forward and people don't forget come along this Friday night what time should kick off Friday night eight seven six six o'clock and it's the usual switch on with the lights. It's the usual big M.C. going to be there. Is he? How the hell are you keep flinching over there of course no better man. As I said we can check out I'm a VVAM me. Did I say it right? Yeah. That's that's the choir in South Africa and check out you can actually check out on on YouTube and stuff and that's right. YouTube everywhere on social media platforms everywhere. We are everywhere. We are the butterflies. And if you want every if you want any more information and go along but if you if you're interested in joining the choir it's contact the Donegal Volunteer Centre here in Lerner Kenny and they would just love to see you and welcome everybody in with open arms. Fitcher the pleasure's been ours. Thank you so much for coming up and sharing your story and sharing your music with us. This song we're going to go out with. Tell us a bit about it. This is a very famous song in Zimbabwe where I originate from so it's a folk song a traditional song. Look it reminds people who had left their homes going to different workplaces that wherever they are they can still remember that there is no place like home and it gives hope to people. So if I were to I mean bring it to our present situations I would say it tells us up to be hopeful that one day they will always be light at the end of the tunnel. Listen it's been an absolute pleasure. Thank you so much indeed. Thank you. This is a what's it's what's the song called? Kubu ka langa.