{"id":5397,"date":"2015-04-07T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2015-04-07T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:54:59","slug":"nile-projects-april-6-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/nile-projects-april-6-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Nile Project on April 6 and 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2015\/04\/2015-Wolfe-nileproject.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5398 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2015\/04\/2015-Wolfe-nileproject.jpg\" alt=\"2015 Wolfe nileproject\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2015\/04\/2015-Wolfe-nileproject.jpg 640w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2015\/04\/2015-Wolfe-nileproject-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/files\/2015\/04\/2015-Wolfe-nileproject-250x164.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>The Nile Project Artist Residency came to the\u00a0Dodge Room in Reed Campus Center on\u00a0Monday, April 6, from 1:40 pm \u2013 3:10 p.m. to share their music and work with students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.nileproject.org\/\">According to their website<\/a>, the\u00a0Nile Project unites\u00a0artists from 11 countries along the Nile basin (Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and beyond) to create one unified sound. The music is produced by a variety of instruments, including the masenko from Ethiopia, the ney and oud from Egypt, and the adungu from Uganda, in addition to violin, saxophone, bass guitar, and vocalists singing in all 11 languages.<\/p>\n<p>The on-campus field trip was required for students who are enrolled in Wind Ensemble and String Ensemble\u00a0and was arranged by\u00a0faculty members Kim Evelti and Ben Demerath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Tuesday, April 7, from 6:30-10:30 p.m., students enrolled in World Civilization, String &amp; Wind Ensemble, and American Music Roots will head to the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for a performance by the Nile Project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mr. Demerath noted that the Nile River has been &#8220;the cause for concern and conflict\u00a0due to political change and population increases\u00a0in the countries along its banks. The Nile Project performance [has]\u00a0a goal to\u00a0use music to open up dialogues and address these concerns.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nile Project Artist Residency came to the\u00a0Dodge Room in Reed Campus Center on\u00a0Monday, April 6, from 1:40 pm \u2013 3:10 p.m. to share their music and work with students. According to their website, the\u00a0Nile Project unites\u00a0artists from 11 countries along the Nile basin (Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and beyond) to create &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/nile-projects-april-6-visit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nile Project on April 6 and 7<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-trips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5402,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions\/5402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}