{"id":73029,"date":"2019-01-10T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T08:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73029"},"modified":"2019-01-10T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T08:03:44","slug":"christafari-and-avion-blackman-set-for-showdown-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/10\/christafari-and-avion-blackman-set-for-showdown-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Christafari and Avion Blackman set for showdown tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Sam Banda Jnr:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christian reggae group Christafari and Avion Blackman gets down to serious business tonight, performing at Sunbird Capital Marquee in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>The show tonight comes barely a day after the group starred for free at Maula Prison.<\/p>\n<p>The group is set to hold another free show Friday at Kalambo Ground.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed No Left Behind, the show tonight will see them sharing the stage with local acts such as Faith Mussa, Sangani Munthali, Suffix and Sam Mjura.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe are urging people to embrace this opportunity by patronising the show with their family members and friends tomorrow, night(today). This is the first time for them to perform; so, this is a must not miss concert,\u201d spokesperson of the organising team,<\/em> Thokozani Chimbali, said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also said the group had fun performing at Maula Prison.<\/p>\n<p>Christafari and Avion Blackman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/christafari-and-avion-blackman-in-town\/\">are in the country<\/a> courtesy of International Christian Assembly in conjunction with All Nations Music Inc.<\/p>\n<p>From Malawi, the group from United States of America is set to perform in Kenya and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>Christafari is a Christian reggae band formed in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The group centred on the personality of ordained religious minister Mark Mohr, an American, born-again Christian who until the age of 17, was a rastafarian.<\/p>\n<p>Each of Christafari\u2019s albums \u2013 notably <em>Reggae Christmas, Greatest Hits Volume 1, Greatest Hits Volume 2 and Anthems <\/em>\u2013 have hit the number one position on the Billboard Reggae Charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Banda Jnr: Christian reggae group Christafari and Avion Blackman gets down to serious business tonight, performing at Sunbird Capital Marquee in Lilongwe. The show tonight comes barely a day after the group starred for free at Maula Prison. The group is set to hold another free show Friday at Kalambo Ground. Dubbed No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73029","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\/73029","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=73029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73033,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73029\/revisions\/73033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}