Eric Wainaina Performs MNET’s No Deal Grande Finale
Kenyan Kora Award-winning singer-songwriter Eric Wainaina will perform today at the grand finale of the Concours d’Elegance. Also in attendance will be Mitch Egwang, the presenter of the Deal, or No Deal MNET TV programme.The two artistes will be at the Nairobi Racecourse for the Schweppes East Africa Concours d’Elegance.
Todays’s event will be the 37th organised by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club.
The Concours tradition has its roots in the 17th century. On high days and holidays the French nobility gathered in the parks of Paris in their best horse drawn carriages wearing fine clothes.
These social meetings gave rise to the name “Concours d’Elegance” (a gathering of elegance). Following the advent of the motor car similar meetings were held by the owners of expensive and luxurious machines. Car and motorcycle manufacturers soon took the opportunity to display their latest models and the Concours developed into a competitive event.
Schweppes will be offering grand prizes for the best dressed man and woman who will each win a Woolworths voucher worth Sh50,000. The Nairobi Racecourse will be decked in the colours of yellow and black and spectators wearing hats will get a complimentary welcome drink.
From 9 am, classic and vintage cars and motorcycles will take centre stage in the key event on the motor calendar and also considered by many to be the greatest local spectator motoring event. While the assessment of the competing cars and motorcycles is the main reason for holding the Concours, it has evolved into a major date on Kenya’s social calendar and a family fun day.
There will be a free children’s entertainment centre, live band music, a spectacular free fall parachute drop and the commentators will announce a series of fly pasts. A marching band will head a parade of all the vehicles in front of the main Racecourse grand stands followed by prize giving.
After this will come the grand finale with Wainaina and Mitch Egwang bringing the curtain down.
[Via The Nation]
