The Grade 5 students are currently learning about African Music and have learned a xylophone piece and African dance. We just began learning the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" on the recorder and Orff Instruments. I showed the students a video of The Nylons singing this famous song and they enjoyed it very much and requested I put it on my blog. It is to be noted that while many musicians sang this song in the 60's and used in "The Lion King" Disney movie, it was originally written in the 1920's by Soloman Linda, a South African singer of Zulu origin.
