{"id":59055,"date":"2024-11-27T18:21:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T14:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=59055"},"modified":"2024-11-27T18:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T14:51:59","slug":"jazz-at-the-island-mezzotono-nesrine","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/jazz-at-the-island-mezzotono-nesrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz At The Island: Mezzotono \/ Nesrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz under the stars on Sharjah&#8217;s Al Noor Island \u2013 though the evening might be stretching the definition of &#8216;jazz&#8217;. The headliners are <strong>Mezzotono<\/strong>, the Italian a cappella five-voice group with a unique style which blends vocal harmonies, beatboxing, and vocal percussion. They aim to cover many music styles from jazz to pop via mambo, tango, folk music (especially Italian \u2013 they&#8217;re from Italy), big band jazz and classical. And the Franco-Algerian singer, songwriter and cellist <strong>Nesrine<\/strong> (above) is another breaker of genre boundaries, usually employing a unique lineup of voice, cello, and percussion to deliver a musical fusion that spans the Mediterranean region from North Africa to Southern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the definitions, though, this is an evening that we&#8217;d highly recommend.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>4-5pm<\/em> <strong>Tour<\/strong> of the island and the Butterfly House<br \/>\n<em>5-5.30pm<\/em> Vocal jazz <strong>workshop<\/strong> with Mezzotono (included in the ticket price, we think, but first come first served)<br \/>\n<em>6-7pm<\/em> Performance by <strong>Sens8tion<\/strong> (Sharjah Performing Arts Academy dance troupe)<br \/>\n<em>7-8.30pm<\/em> Interval for dinner<br \/>\n<em>8.30-9.30pm<\/em> <strong>Mezzotono<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>9.30-10.30pm<\/em> <strong>Nesrine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The AED 100 ticket price buys you entry to the music, but there&#8217;s also a 250 AED option which includes dinner before the main acts; and a AED 450 deal for entry on both nights including dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Jazz under the stars on Sharjah&#8217;s Al Noor Island \u2013 though the evening might be stretching the definition of &#8216;jazz&#8217;. The headliners are Mezzotono, the Italian a cappella five-voice group with a unique style which blends vocal harmonies, beatboxing, and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/jazz-at-the-island-mezzotono-nesrine\/\" title=\"Jazz At The Island: Mezzotono \/ Nesrine\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59057,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[59],"class_list":["post-59055","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-jazz","cat_jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/59055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/59055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59055"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=59055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}