{"id":145,"date":"2012-03-05T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=145"},"modified":"2012-03-05T12:58:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:58:27","slug":"music-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2012\/03\/05\/music-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Music from around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does\u00a0listening to music and watching dancers from across the globe sound?\u00a0 I got to do just that on Saturday at the International Festival in Madison.\u00a0 You would have loved the colorful costumes, the different music, and the dancing.\u00a0 And if that&#8217;s not up your alley, maybe the Kung Fu fighters would have appealed more to you.\u00a0 Here are a few pictures of musicians from around the world (including West Africa!).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Russian-orchestra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Russian-orchestra-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"Russian orchestra\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Russian-orchestra-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Russian-orchestra-1024x565.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We listened to this Russian orchestra. If you click on the picture you can look closer at the interesting instruments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Lithuanian-Dancers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Lithuanian-Dancers-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Lithuanian Dancers\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Lithuanian-Dancers-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Lithuanian-Dancers-1024x579.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These Lithuanian dancers did a great job and reminded me of &quot;The Sound of Music.&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Ghana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Ghana-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Dancers and Musicians from Ghana\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Ghana-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Ghana-1024x612.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghana is in West Africa, and here we got to listen to music and see dancers from Ghana. They sure had a strong drum beat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Kora1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-152\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Kora1-157x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kora Player\" width=\"157\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Kora1-157x300.jpg 157w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Kora1-537x1024.jpg 537w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/03\/Kora1.jpg 1112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kora is an instrument from West Africa (the closest they have to a harp), and this musician from Mali played it for us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does\u00a0listening to music and watching dancers from across the globe sound?\u00a0 I got to do just that on Saturday at the International Festival in Madison.\u00a0 You would have loved the colorful costumes, the different music, and the dancing.\u00a0 And if that&#8217;s not up your alley, maybe the Kung Fu fighters would have appealed more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}