{"id":104,"date":"2013-04-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.batukimusic.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2020-06-07T02:41:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T02:41:04","slug":"afrafranto-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/eventscat\/concerts\/afrafranto-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrafranto: Aug 30, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"header2\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.batukimusic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harambee-Africa.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.batukimusic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harambee-Africa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"851\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harambee-Africa.png 851w, https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Harambee-Africa-300x110.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"color: #a91d0e;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 60px; width: 600px;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Thursday, APRIL 25, 2013 &#8211; entry 8 PM, show 9 PM<br \/>\n$15 @ door <\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #a91d0e;\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"Lula Lounge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lula.ca\/lula-lounge\/directions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lula Lounge<\/a> 1585 Dundas St W, Toronto<br \/>\nreserve for dinner to guarantee seating<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #a91d0e;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><a title=\"Karibuni\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ciut.fm\/shows\/music-shows\/karibuni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karibuni&rsquo;s<\/a> wrap-party for the <a title=\"CIUT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ciut.fm\/about\/donate-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CIUT 89.5FM Spring Membership Drive<\/a>:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">FREE with any pledge during the fundraising show, 6 to 8 PM on Sunday, April 21.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Afrafranto (&lsquo;Butterfly&rsquo; in the Akan language of Ghana, West Africa) performs authentic acoustic palm wine and highlife music. The only group outside Ghana preserving and promoting this unique genre, Afrafranto has grown into a dynamic group that has entertained audiences over the past few years with their dance-driven music and electric performances.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Afrafranto features four members of the JUNO award winning African Guitar Summit group &#8211; Theo Yaw Boakye on lead vocals and shakers, Pa Joe on guitar and vocals, Kofi Ackah on percussion and vocals, and Ebenezer Agyekum on bass guitar &#8211; along with Sam Donkor on balafon, and Marshall Nketiah on congas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">click here for more info on palm wine and highlife music, at Afrafranto&rsquo;s <a title=\"Afrafranto (Ghana)\" href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=50&amp;Itemid=56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">artist profile.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The <a title=\"Karibuni\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ciut.fm\/shows\/music-shows\/karibuni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karibuni<\/a> radio program on Sundays, 6 to 8 PM: a celebration of the cultures and music from the African continent, hosted by Nadine McNulty and Michael Stohr.<br \/>\n<a title=\"CIUT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ciut.fm\/about\/donate-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CIUT 89.5FM<\/a>, Toronto\u2019s preeminent, listener-supported, presenter of leading-edge music and spoken-word programming since 1966: firmly rooted in the University of Toronto community, and broadcasting 24\/7 from Barrie to Buffalo, and Kitchener to Cobourg.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Batuki Music Society gratefully acknowledges the support of <a title=\"Canadian Heritage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pch.gc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian Heritage<\/a> and the <a title=\"OAC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.on.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ontario Arts Council<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, APRIL 25, 2013 &#8211; entry 8 PM, show 9 PM $15 @ door \u00a0Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas St W, Toronto reserve for dinner to guarantee seating Karibuni&rsquo;s wrap-party for the CIUT 89.5FM Spring Membership &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2013-events","category-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batukimusic.com\/site2\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}