{"id":50974,"date":"2017-07-27T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=50974"},"modified":"2017-07-27T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:20:43","slug":"overton-chimombo-speaks-on-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/07\/27\/overton-chimombo-speaks-on-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Overton Chimombo speaks on music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>V<\/strong>eteran musician Overton Chimombo has said that the country has made progress as far as music is concerned but there is room for improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have talent on the ground but it needs to be nurtured. Most of them need to be trained so as to upgrade them,\u201d said the veteran musician.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to the government and the corporate world to take interest in the arts and support some of the projects that are there to train artists.<\/p>\n<p>Chimombo said he was still in music although he\u2019s not active in live performances.<\/p>\n<p>Chimombo has been involved in the A4AY project run by Active Youth Initiative for Social Enhancement (Ayise) in partnership with Mibawa.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran musician said he has also been involved in putting together a band at Chrichi Multipurpose Gardens in Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>The band last weekend backed gospel musicians The Great Angels Choir, Ndirande Anglican Voices and King James Phiri.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am impressed with the way the band performed. They are not yet there but, with time, things will improve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chimombo also appealed to artists in the country to work very hard to satisfy their audiences by that striving for quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuality should be key whenever they are holding live performances or even working on new songs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chimombo said people should just watch the space as he would come back with performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran musician Overton Chimombo has said that the country has made progress as far as music is concerned but there is room for improvement. \u201cWe have talent on the ground but it needs to be nurtured. Most of them need to be trained so as to upgrade them,\u201d said the veteran musician. He appealed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50978,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50974\/revisions\/50978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}