{"id":6683,"date":"2015-02-08T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2015-03-16T19:25:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T19:25:20","slug":"blitz-ambassador-listening-party-nairobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/blitz-ambassador-listening-party-nairobi\/","title":{"rendered":"Blitz the Ambassador Listening Party in Nairobi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian-American artist <a href=\"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/?s=blitz#\">Blitz the Ambassador<\/a> in the past years has been touring the world and releasing new music without as much as a break. He&#8217;s currently gearing up for a tour across the motherland which will take him to Zanzibar for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busaramusic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sauti za Busara<\/a> festival and finally to Ghana. In between he will make a stopover in Nairobi, Kenya to premier his upcoming album, Diasporadical at a listening party on February 18.<\/p>\n<p>Blitz&#8217; first appearance in Kenya is organized by Spark Africa on the weekly Nairobi Rapsody hip hop event at Ebony Lounge. At Africanhiphop.com we&#8217;re proud to be an official media partner in this and upcoming Nairobi Rapsody events, so you can expect more announcements, interviews with performing artists and more.<\/p>\n<p>In Zanzibar, Blitz will perform with his live band. In Nairobi, as it&#8217;s a listening party, all tracks will be played from the Diasporadical release, and Blitz will jump on the mic too. Supporting artists are <a href=\"http:\/\/muthonimusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Muthoni the Dummer Queen<\/a> and dj <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/247blink\" target=\"_blank\">Blinky Bill<\/a>. Entrance is FREE and the listening party runs from 10PM to midnight.<\/p>\n<p>More details coming up as we&#8217;re speaking to some of the people involved in the performances&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ebony Lounge, Westlands road, Nairobi<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/EBONY-Lounge\/220674031467823\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> \/ Google Maps: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.ke\/maps\/place\/Westlands+Rd,+Nairobi\/@-1.269298,36.8086195,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x182f173961db13a7:0x77455c76e7f761b2?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Westlands Road<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 February, Nairobi Rapsody in partnership with Africanhiphop.com presents the world premier of Blitz the Ambassador&#8217;s new album Diasporadical in Nairobi, Kenya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[234,138,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}