{"id":54044,"date":"2017-09-25T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=54044"},"modified":"2017-09-25T08:30:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T06:30:18","slug":"joseph-nkasa-gets-attention-in-zitherepano-4520-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/09\/25\/joseph-nkasa-gets-attention-in-zitherepano-4520-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Nkasa gets attention in Zitherepano 45:20 Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"

P<\/strong>hungu Joseph Nkasa proved that he is still popular and relevant in the country\u2019s music circles when he got the much needed attention during the three-day Zitherepano Club 45:20 Bash in Mangochi.<\/p>\n

Nkasa was on Friday\u2019s menu alongside Alleluya Band, featuring veterans in Coss Chiwalo and Paul Subiri, and popular reggae group Black Missionaries.<\/p>\n

Zitherepano organised the bash to celebrate 20 years of existence while its proprietor, Victoria Kingstone, has turned 45.<\/p>\n

There were actually fireworks during the first day, which pulled a huge audience, with the performances going all the way to the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n

Nkasa performed in the early hours of Saturday soon after the audience had enjoyed Black Missionaries\u2019 reggae vibes.<\/p>\n

He received a huge applause upon his entry on stage, with some jumping on stage to embrace him.<\/p>\n

Backed by Alleluya Band, Nkasa, who has several albums to his credit, performed a few songs, some of which were requests from the audience before getting off stage.<\/p>\n

It was late, around 3am when he was jumping on stage but people waited for his performance<\/p>\n

He, however, still needs to perfect his stage work.<\/p>\n

\u201cZitherepano has been there offering us a venue and we celebrate with them. I am happy to be here and I am thankful to Zitherepano for considering me to be part of this bash,\u201d Nkasa said.<\/p>\n

He said he was happy to share the stage with other artists, adding that, through such meetings, they share ideas and learn from each other.<\/p>\n

Nkasa paved the way for Subiri, who also offered his songs.<\/p>\n

Earlier on, there were performances from Chiwalo, who reminded the audience of his past exploits, before Blacks took over the stage, entertaining people with songs from their Kuimba <\/em>albums.<\/p>\n

However, Black Missionaries took a longtime to start their performance as they were still balancing the equipment.<\/p>\n

The sound was not razor-sharp on the night, although the audience enjoyed the performances.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited, as Zitherepano, to celebrate 20 years. We will continue bringing out more and offer artists the platform. I am also excited to be honoured by Alleluya Band,\u201d Kingstone said.<\/p>\n

Blacks lead vocalist, Anjiru Fumulani, said this was a good platform, adding that it has been a longtime since they performed in Mangochi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a good outing and, as Blacks, we are happy to be part of the celebration. This is a good venue, which has supported us and we wish them all the best,\u201d Anjiru said.<\/p>\n

Anthony \u2018Mr Cool\u2019 Makondetsa, who also performed, hailed Zitherepano for organising the three-day bash.<\/p>\n

Chiwalo said they were happy to be invited to the bash.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may recall that we have just returned from Italy and Israel; so, we are happy to perform here in Mangochi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The second day saw performances from, among others, Dan Lufani.<\/p>\n

The bash was expected to end Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phungu Joseph Nkasa proved that he is still popular and relevant in the country\u2019s music circles when he got the much needed attention during the three-day Zitherepano Club 45:20 Bash in Mangochi. Nkasa was on Friday\u2019s menu alongside Alleluya Band, featuring veterans in Coss Chiwalo and Paul Subiri, and popular reggae group Black Missionaries. Zitherepano […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54044","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\/54044","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=54044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54049,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54044\/revisions\/54049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}