{"id":599,"date":"2010-12-22T12:51:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2010-12-22T12:51:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:51:23","slug":"magnificent-joyful-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/22\/magnificent-joyful-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnificent, joyful music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Magnificent, joyful music<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Sitting in at the goat roast.\" src=\"http:\/\/holden.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Goat.roast.thumbnail.jpg\" class=\"attachment wp-att-897\"><br \/>\nAs I stated a few posts ago, I had the opportunity to sit in with a band in Malawi at the goat roast. The bandleader is named James Msalakwa and the band was named Jirere. You can see the band name on the drums.<br \/>\nSitting in at the goat roast.<br \/>\nSitting in with Jirere.<\/p>\n<p>The drummer was impressive. His hi-hat was made of bicycle wheels. Before sitting in, I went up to buy a CD from them. Here\u2019s the audio I recorded while buying the CD.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to how tight the hi-hat is! With bicycle wheels!<\/p>\n<p>One of the residents, Caryl, talked with me while I was buying the CD and helped me figure out how much they cost. You can hear James tell me it was 2000 Kwacha, which she says is $12. Then Caryl asks me if I want to bargain with him. I say, \u201cWhat\u2019s the upside of that?\u201d and give him $20.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Caryl\u2019s blog about the same night.<\/p>\n<p>Magnificent, joyful music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnificent, joyful music As I stated a few posts ago, I had the opportunity to sit in with a band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}