{"id":3604,"date":"2013-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/04\/01\/delta-state-university-community-drumming-and-dance-experience-to-present-concert\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:05:28","slug":"delta-state-university-community-drumming-and-dance-experience-to-present-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2013\/04\/delta-state-university-community-drumming-and-dance-experience-to-present-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State University Community Drumming and Dance Experience to Present Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"659\" height=\"500\" src=\"\/Images\/DSU Community Drum and Dance.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sounds of Africa will be once again be ringing through the Mississippi Delta on Tuesday, April 2 as The Delta State University Department of Music presents the Delta State University Community Drumming and Dance Experience in Concert.&nbsp; The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Jobe Hall Auditorium. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The concert will include traditional and contemporary drumming, dance, and songs from Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and South Africa. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>This performance will feature the beautiful South African apartheid song, Senzenina, arranged and led by Delta State University music major Ashley Bobo.&nbsp; Also featured will be music major Beth Allman singing lead on Sawale, a popular Nigerian high-life song. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The group, led by Delta State University music faculty Karen Fosheim and Josh Armstrong, recently completed a four-stop tour of Mississippi, including a special Black History Month performance at the B.B. King Museum in Indianola. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Fosheim said of this performance, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a little something for everyone, with a mix of Afro-pop and contemporary and traditional drumming selections.&nbsp; The dancers are prominently featured and the diverse talents of the group are shown through performance on a variety of traditional and modern African and Western instruments.&rdquo; &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>For more information, call the Delta State Department of Music at 662-846-4615. The recital is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sounds of Africa will be once again be ringing through the Mississippi Delta on Tuesday, April 2 as The Delta State University Department of Music presents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40789,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions\/40789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}