Matczynski (2022) defines kolomashie as Ga processional music that originated in the 1940s, with songs accompanied by tamalin frame drums, pati side-drums and iron bells. A Grinnell College ethnomusicology page describes it as a recreational genre of Ga origin later taken up as Fante men's music, with topical song texts.
A kolomashie group led the twins' procession through Jamestown.