{"id":83656,"date":"2016-12-28T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T07:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/kabuls-winter-music-festival\/"},"modified":"2016-12-28T07:55:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T07:55:58","slug":"kabuls-winter-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/kabuls-winter-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"KABUL\u2019S WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"327\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/12 December\/28 Dec\/musice (3) - Copy 1.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\">KABUL&rsquo;S WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): The 7<sup>th<\/sup> Winter Music Festival has kicked-off at the Afghanistan National Music Institute (ANMI) here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organizers, promoting young talent is the main objective of this festival. The festival would continue for 7 days during which music students from Herat, Bamyan and Kabul would participate. Live orchestra and solo performances would feature in this festivity.<\/p>\n<p>Naser Ahmad Sarmast, head of the ANMI, while inaugurating the event, said that the Institute has launched the winter music festival to promote young talent and music. &ldquo;The festival provides an opportunity for students from provinces to learn more about music instruments in Kabul&rdquo;, added Sarmast.<\/p>\n<p>Sarmast expressed that ANMI offers friendly environment where families can enroll their boys and girls for music learning.<\/p>\n<p>During the festival, artists from the ANMI would be selected for a European tour to present the Afghan music. To ensure equal opportunity, 50 percent of the performers at this festival will be female.<\/p>\n<p>The institute&nbsp;has 150 young artists, and it is administered by the Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 7th Winter Music Festival has kicked-off at the Afghanistan National Music Institute (ANMI) here on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}