{"id":1185,"date":"2010-04-20T15:59:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T20:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/blog\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2010-04-20T15:59:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T20:59:50","slug":"balla-goes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/balla-goes-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Balla goes to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time we heard\u00a0balafon master  <a href=\"http:\/\/ballakouyate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Balla Kouyat\u00e9<\/a> performing it was at a baby shower in Roxbury, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1184\" title=\"Balla Kouyate on balafon and Markane Kouyate on talking drum. Photo by Maggie Holtzberg\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/baby_shower_balla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the domestic to the national scene, Balla and his band, World Vision, are being presented by the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/rr\/perform\/concert\/0910-folklife.html#april28\" target=\"_blank\">American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress<\/a> April 28 as part of their noontime &#8220;Homegrown Concert Series&#8221;. We will be there with him, introducing this\u00a0virtuoso balafon player to a DC audience. If you are in the vicinity, come on by. And if you miss the 12:00 o&#8217;clock performance, you can catch them at the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/programs\/millennium\/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=KUYTEBALLA\" target=\"_blank\">Kennedy Center&#8217;s Millenium Stage<\/a> from 6:00-7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time we heard\u00a0balafon master Balla Kouyat\u00e9 performing it was at a baby shower in Roxbury, Massachusetts. From the domestic to the national scene, Balla and his band, World Vision, are being presented by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress April 28 as part of their noontime &#8220;Homegrown Concert Series&#8221;. We will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/balla-goes-to-washington\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balla goes to Washington&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,277,72],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-public-program","category-world-music","tag-balla-kouyate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Balla goes to Washington  - Keepers of Tradition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/balla-goes-to-washington\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Balla goes to Washington  - Keepers of Tradition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last time we heard\u00a0balafon master Balla Kouyat\u00e9 performing it was at a baby shower in Roxbury, Massachusetts. 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