{"id":23737,"date":"2011-05-12T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=23737"},"modified":"2011-05-12T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T14:38:59","slug":"sights-and-sounds-from-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=23737","title":{"rendered":"Sights and sounds from Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luke Wassermann is a US citizen and music publisher who takes pride and interest in recording and publishing indigenous music of\u00a0 Sierra Leonean artists in the likes of Sorie\u00a0 Kondi, Mende of Moyamba, Dances of the Secret Society, Susu of Lungi, and Folk Songs of Sherbro Island. Luke&#8217;s website promotes not only Sierra Leonean artists but other artists around the world. I&#8217;ve listened to and reviewed more than half a dozen of his published music CDs recorded in Sierra Leone. It is a good thing that these songs and music could be kept for posterity, even after the artists have expired. This is a gold mine that Sierra Leoneans too could conduct a study, if not take pride in researching and documenting our rich diverse culture and history. The publisher contacted me to express his thoughts on the nation&#8217;s 50th Independence Anniversary Celebrations. Though brief, his message and pictures speak volumes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cApril 27, 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of independence of Sierra Leone. I spent the day in the province where I live, in Lungi. Everyone was in a jovial mood, and I joined the late afternoon\u00a0parade of masked devils, drummers, and\u00a0revelers starting\u00a0from Masoila, past the airport, and back to my town of Tintafor at sunset. It was a great day in the history of Sierra Leone and I had a lot of fun. I&#8217;ve never witnessed anything like it in my life actually. Here are a few pictures and a sound clips from the festivities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AUDIO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yousendit.com\/download\/MEtTWmdqMGNwM2xFQlE9PQ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.yousendit.com\/download\/MEtTWmdqMGNwM2xFQlE9PQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Lungi-celebrations-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23738\" title=\"Lungi celebrations 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Lungi-celebrations-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Lungi-celebrations-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23739\" title=\"Lungi celebrations 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Lungi-celebrations-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Lungi-celebrations-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23740\" title=\"Lungi celebrations 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Lungi-celebrations-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Lungi-celebrations-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23741\" title=\"Lungi celebrations 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Lungi-celebrations-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Roland Bankole Marke, USA<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Wassermann is a US citizen and music publisher who takes pride and interest in recording and publishing indigenous music of\u00a0 Sierra Leonean artists in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,1],"tags":[4395,2753,1121,1327,7984,1373,6413],"class_list":["post-23737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-entertainment","category-uncategorized","tag-50th-independence-anniversary-celebrations","tag-luke-wassermann","tag-lungi","tag-sierra-leone-culture","tag-sierra-leone-history","tag-sierra-leone-music","tag-sierra-leone-musicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}