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	== Summary ==		== Summary ==
	Legon Palmwine Band is a Ghanaian ensemble associated with the University of Ghana's Legon music community. It develops [[Palm-wine music\|palm-wine music]] through contemporary performance, drawing on the tradition associated with [[Koo Nimo]].<ref name="legon-bio">[https://musicinafrica.net/node/279788 Music In Africa: Legon Palmwine Band]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>		Legon Palmwine Band is a Ghanaian ensemble associated with the University of Ghana's Legon music community. It develops [[Palm-wine music\|palm-wine music]] through contemporary performance, drawing on the tradition associated with [[Koo Nimo]].<ref name="legon-bio">[https://musicinafrica.net/node/279788 Music In Africa: Legon Palmwine Band]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

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	== History ==		== History ==
	The group emerged from university music-making in the mid-2010s. Its members' experiments alongside the Legon Highlife Ensemble developed into a separate band, as described in [[Eric Sunu Doe]]'s research. Live appearances subsequently extended its reach beyond the campus.<ref name="legon-thesis">[https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/bitstreams/53c59814-2d1a-4c38-b99a-077cf01ff48a/download ~~Eric Sunu Doe~~: Ghanaian Palmwine Music, indexed band-history and personnel passages]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>		The group emerged from university music-making in the mid-2010s. Its members' experiments alongside the Legon Highlife Ensemble developed into a separate band, as described in [[Eric Sunu Doe]]'s research. Live appearances subsequently extended its reach beyond the campus.<ref name="legon-thesis">[[Eric Sunu Doe]][https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/bitstreams/53c59814-2d1a-4c38-b99a-077cf01ff48a/download : Ghanaian Palmwine Music, indexed band-history and personnel passages]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

	== Music and repertoire ==		== Music and repertoire ==

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== Summary ==
Legon Palmwine Band is a Ghanaian ensemble associated with the University of Ghana's Legon music community. It develops [[Palm-wine music|palm-wine music]] through contemporary performance, drawing on the tradition associated with [[Koo Nimo]].<ref name="legon-bio">[https://musicinafrica.net/node/279788 Music In Africa: Legon Palmwine Band]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

== History ==
The group emerged from university music-making in the mid-2010s. Its members' experiments alongside the Legon Highlife Ensemble developed into a separate band, as described in [[Eric Sunu Doe]]'s research. Live appearances subsequently extended its reach beyond the campus.<ref name="legon-thesis">[https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/bitstreams/53c59814-2d1a-4c38-b99a-077cf01ff48a/download Eric Sunu Doe: Ghanaian Palmwine Music, indexed band-history and personnel passages]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

== Music and repertoire ==
Fingerpicked guitar, percussion, Akan storytelling and vocal harmony shape the ensemble's interpretation of inherited music. This approach places revival inside ongoing composition and performance. ''Legon Abrabɔ'', released in 2020, takes university life as its title; the later single 'Ɛtoɔ' addresses tax. The biography also documents an appearance at the 2022 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.<ref name="legon-bio" />

Selected recordings in MuGlobe:
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8IQoRK3hrM Palmwine Highlife Live at Alliance Française Accra | Legon Palmwine Band (Full Concert)] — [[Palm-wine music]].

== Members and collaborators ==
The published lineup names Samuel Agyeman Boahen on guitar and voice, Edwin Akwei Brown on percussion, Seth Kpodo on voice and frikyiwa, Albert Owusu Brown on voice, shakers and premprensiwa, and [[Eric Sunu Doe]] on guitar, voice and premprensiwa. These are the personnel documented in that account, rather than an assurance about every later performance.<ref name="legon-bio" />

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