By Benedicto Maguda

Blantyre, November 14, Mana: Utatu Woyera (Kawale) Catholic Parish Choir 1 will launch its first ever-English music CD and DVD album titled, County Your Blessings, on Sunday, November 17 at Golden Peacock Hotel in Lilongwe from 1 pm.

The launch is part of the choir’s mission of spreading the gospel through music on top providing space to establish new relationships with other choirs.

Chairperson of the audio and video project, Laurent Mkwanda, told the Malawi News Agency (Mana), that preparations for the launch were at an advanced stage and pledged that people in Lilongwe will enjoy the audio and video launch.

“We are launching a CD and DVD titled; Count Your Blessings which is our first English album. For a long time, we have been producing Chichewa albums but this time, we have decided to come up with English songs,

“We want to reach those that like listening to the English songs,” he said, adding that many choirs from Lilongwe and outside Lilongwe were invited to the album launch.

 The new CD and DVD have 17 songs and were recorded by Felix Ziyade of Honour Et Gloria studio and Felix Mpinga of Luntha Studio.

“We have decided to invite special choirs to be guest choirs. We want people to watch beautiful performances on stage,” he said.

Silvester Mwang’ana, Secretary for Utatu Woyera Catholic Church Choir, said people should expect live performance, adding that all instruments will be played live.

“We will not use CD on the day like what others have been doing in their launches. We shall play our instruments like guitars, flutes, and violin manually on the stage,” he added.

Mwang’ana called on people in Lilongwe to come in large numbers at Golden Peacock Hotel to witness the launching of Utatu Woyera (Kawale) Choir 1.

“Am requesting all gospel music lovers to come and be blessed with our songs. We are well prepared and let me assure people that they will enjoy the songs,” he added.

Some of the songs that are in other albums include; Ambuye Ndimadabwa, Ndikubwera Kuti Ndidzipereke, Lord of Dance, Sweet Sacrament.

Utatu Woyera (Kawale) Catholic Choir 1 from the Lilongwe Archdiocese, has three albums, the first one being Ndidzatama released in 2012, Kodi Ndidzanena Chiyani in 2018, Ambuye Ndimadabwa in 2023 with Count Your Blessings the fourth one.