{"id":3136,"date":"2023-11-22T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T22:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2023-11-22T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T22:35:35","slug":"3136-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/3136-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_35 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3137\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_3473.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_3473.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_3473-300x266.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_3473-768x682.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Today for Young People\u2019s Concert students got to see Kutapira perform. \u00a0Kutapira is a fusion of Zimbabwean Marimba, Afro-Cuban &amp; West African rhythms, Reggae, Samba, Afrobeat, Funk, Jazz, Cumbia, Disco and Hip Hop.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_35 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">What started out thirteen years ago as a youth world music initiative has metamrphosized into the crowd pleasing percussion explosion known today as\u00a0Kutapira.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_35 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">The name\u00a0Kutapira\u00a0means \u201csweetness\u201d in the Shona language of Zimbabwe, a fitting title for a band that plays a fusion of Zimbabwean marimba with West African and Afro-Cuban percussion.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_35 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">For years they performed exclusively as a mallet swinging, skin-slapping quintet but now, in their latest evolutionary form, feature guitar, vocals and\u00a0electric bass.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Students thoroughly enjoyed the performance and liked learning about the different instruments and how they are constructed to create their sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today for Young People\u2019s Concert students got to see Kutapira perform. \u00a0Kutapira is a fusion of Zimbabwean Marimba, Afro-Cuban &amp; West African rhythms, Reggae, Samba, Afrobeat, Funk, Jazz, Cumbia, Disco and Hip Hop.\u00a0 What started out thirteen years ago as a youth world music initiative<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/3136-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,12,44,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/smithc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}