{"id":86361,"date":"2015-01-27T20:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=86361"},"modified":"2015-01-27T22:27:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T22:27:02","slug":"earl-klugh-headline-stanbic-jazz-festival-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=86361","title":{"rendered":"Earl Klugh to headline Stanbic Jazz festival 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz legend, Earl Klugh will be the main act at the 2015 Stanbic Jazz Festival at the International Conference Center come February 19 and 20, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The second edition of the festival will also feature Arkah Blay and other local jazz artistes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the lunch for the 2015 Stanbic Jazz Festival, Head of Marketing and Communications at Stanbic Bank Ghana, Mawuko Afadzinu said the bank\u2019s association with the Jazz Festival is to buttress the point that \u201cwe aim to deliver world class service\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, as part of the bank\u2019s plan to nurture and promote the development of the visual and performing arts, thus the Stanbic Jazz Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe promised last year to make the Stanbic Bank Ghana Jazz Festival a stop on the global jazz calendar by presenting top-flight musicians to the people of Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to contribute in positive ways to develop and grow the music industry thereby providing employment, training and skills development in all the related field of technical production including sound engineering ,\u2019\u2019 He added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG-20150127-WA0020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-86380\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG-20150127-WA0020.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20150127-WA0020\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earl Klugh is one of the most imitated icons of the instrument. He has issued dozens of discs, 24 of which have been on Billboard\u2019s top-10 list of jazz albums. He has received 13 Grammy nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking via the telephone at the lunch of the 2015 Stanbic Jazz Festival, Klugh said he, together with his band are ready for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ready to perform in Ghana and we can\u2019t wait to touch base in Accra,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The second edition of the Stanbic Jazz Festival is in partnership with Vodafone Ghana,Delta Airlines, Graphic Communications, Quality Insurance Company and Buena Vista Homes.<\/p>\n<p>Interested persons can purchase their tickets for the two-day event from any Stanbic Bank branch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Evans Effah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz legend, Earl Klugh will be the main act at the 2015 Stanbic Jazz Festival at the International Conference Center come February 19 and 20, 2015. The second edition of the festival will also feature Arkah Blay and other local jazz artistes. Speaking at the lunch for the 2015 Stanbic Jazz Festival, Head of Marketing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6,33],"class_list":["post-86361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-togbe-afede","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}