All Egyptians enjoyed singing and making music.  They would chant when working in the fields, or worshipping in temples. They also sang in times of funerals, when tending sheep, and at banquets. Banquet songs reminded everyone of how good life was.   Some of their musical instruments were flutes, pipes, rattles, cymbals, and drums.

Some of their favorite pastimes were fishing, river boat outings, swimming and hunting crocodiles and/or hippopotamus along the Nile River. 

Also, the upper class loved to give lavish parties where music, food, and drink were in abundance.  Festivals usually were holidays to honor the gods.