Seven years after living the palmwine highlife dream, Ghanaian band Kwan Pa is venturing into film.

The highlife band will be premiering their movie titled ‘Sweet Palmwine’ on October 26, 2024 at the Silverbird Cinemas in Accra.

Speaking to Kwame Dadzie on Showbiz A-Z on Joy FM, the leader of the band, Asah Nkansah, said the movie project is one of their ways of helping project and preserve palmwine highlife.

“We released a six-track EP and instead of working on individual videos for all the songs, we decided to pick the stories in the songs and then put together a movie. 

Basically, we wanted to do something that will have palmwine music in there, so that even if the band is not there physically to perform, once you get the movie and you watch, you still experience palmwine music.

Asah added that the movie is tailored along the model of Egbert Adjesu’s 1970 movie ‘I Told You So’ which incorporates drama and music.

“This one is a music drama and it is also a romantic comedy rated ‘Universal’, which means it is safe for all age groups to watch,” he said.

According to the band, Wahala Entertainment took charge of the entire production of the movie which features Aaron Adatsi, Pascaline Edwards, Fred Amugi, Willie Chambers, among other top Ghanaian actors.

There will be two shows at both the Accra Mall and Westhills Mall venues of the Silverbird Cinemas. The first and the second shows start at 7pm and 9pm respectively. 

A ticket is selling for 100 cedis.

Kwan Pa is a palmwine highlife band which has gradually endeared itself to music lovers in Ghana and abroad. 

Formed on July 31, 2017, the band has performed at a lot of social and national events in Ghana and have also toured other parts of the world with their music. Even though they perform with traditional musical instrument, they also add a modern touch to most of their songs.

Apart from performing indigenous highlife songs and other contemporary forms of music, they have their own compositions. Their six-track ‘Palmwine Music’ EP was released in 2022. It has songs such as ‘Mr. Traveller’, ‘Culinary Battle’, ‘Gyato’, ‘Ice Water’, ‘Aduane Nyinya’, and ‘Immediate Effect.’

The Kwan Pa band set-up includes kpalongo drums, atumpan, gome drum, rattle, twin bell and an acoustic guitar.

It comprises four members: Frederick Kwame Minamor, Bismark Kwabena Safo, Evans Ntieh and Andrew Asah Nkansah (the leader). All the four members play a musical instrument each and double as vocalists.