Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West Africanmusical genre. It evolved among the Kru people of Liberia, who used Portugueseguitars brought by sailors, Trinidadiancalypso and traditional rhythms. Palm-wine was named after a drink, palm wine, made from the naturally fermented sap of the oil palm, which was drunk at gatherings where early African guitarists played.
Palm-wine was first popularized by Ebenezer Calendar & His Maringar Band, who recorded many popular songs in the 1950s and early 1960s. Palm-wine left an influence on many styles, especially soukous and highlife. Though still somewhat popular, palm-wine is no longer as renowned as it once was. Modern musicians include S. E. Rogie, Daniel Amponsah, Abdul T-Jay and Super Combo.
Traditional music from Nigeria and throughout Africa is almost always functional; that is, performed to mark a ritual such as a wedding or funeral, and not for pure entertainment or artistic enjoyment.
The most common format for music in Nigeria is the call-and-response choir, in which a lead singer and a chorus interchange verses, sometimes accompanied by instruments that either shadow the lead text or repeat and ostinato vocal phrase.
The Hausa of the north are known for complex percussive music, the one-stringed goje fiddle, and a strong praise song vocal tradition.
Palmwinemusic is a West African style of guitar music, mainly from the countries of Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria.
The name "palmwinemusic" of course comes from the music's association with the drink palmwine, which is made by tapping a palm tree and fermenting the sap.
Palmwinemusic has had a few important musicians that rose from the local nature of the style to record and become known across the region and in some cases internationally.
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