{"id":6527,"date":"2016-03-19T16:49:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T16:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2016-03-19T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:02:20","slug":"blues-on-the-green-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/music\/2016\/03\/blues-on-the-green-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasia Performance at ‘Blues on the Green’ concert in Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grammy award-winner Fantasia<\/strong> headlined the annual ‘Blues on the Green<\/strong>‘ concert held on Friday, March 18 at the Emancipation Park in St Andrew, Jamaica.<\/p>\n

The concert now in its 24th year \u2014 hosted by the United States Embassy in Kingston \u2014 commemorates African-American History Month.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VtGkqSXeCZ8<\/p>\n

Reggae stars Romain Virgo<\/strong> and Jesse Royal<\/strong> also graced the stage.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VbdZ78XiweQ<\/p>\n

The free concert theme was ‘Out of Many, One!’ The show was initially set for February 26\u00a0but was rescheduled due to \u201clogistical issues\u201d associated with Jamaica\u2019s February 25 General Election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grammy award-winner Fantasia headlined the annual ‘Blues on the Green‘ concert held on Friday, March 18 at the Emancipation Park in St Andrew, Jamaica. The concert now in its 24th year \u2014 hosted by the United States Embassy in Kingston \u2014 commemorates African-American History Month. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VtGkqSXeCZ8 Reggae stars Romain Virgo and Jesse Royal also graced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[479,481,480],"class_list":["post-6527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-music","tag-fantasia","tag-jesse-royal","tag-romain-virgo","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6534,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}