{"id":6387,"date":"2015-11-16T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2015-11-16T16:46:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:46:29","slug":"mpr-previews-maryan-mursals-midnimo-residency-finale-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/11\/16\/mpr-previews-maryan-mursals-midnimo-residency-finale-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"MPR previews Maryan Mursal&#8217;s Midnimo residency finale concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MPRLogo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MPRLogo.jpeg\" alt=\"MPRLogo\" width=\"100\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a>Minnesota Public Radio News recently published an article covering Somali singer Maryan Mursal&#8217;s concert series at the Cedar Cultural Center, an event co-sponsored by Augsburg College as part of the Midnimo program\u00a0that\u00a0seeks to build knowledge and understanding of Somali Muslim culture through music. Mursal rose to early fame as a teenager in Mogadishu, but was forced out of Somalia\u00a0by war. She eventually found asylum&#8211;and a renewed musical career&#8211;in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the concert performances, Mursal participated in public discussions, workshops, and community events, as well as a live radio performance on The Current that\u00a0featured an\u00a0Augsburg alumni jazz band and Somali musicians from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Read:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2015\/11\/13\/maryan-mursal\" target=\"_blank\"> Superstar, refugee, legend: Singer Maryan Mursal&#8217;s voice endures<\/a> on the MPR News site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Public Radio News recently published an article covering Somali singer Maryan Mursal&#8217;s concert series at the Cedar Cultural Center, an event co-sponsored by Augsburg College as part of the Midnimo program\u00a0that\u00a0seeks to build knowledge and understanding of Somali Muslim culture through music. Mursal rose to early fame as a teenager in Mogadishu, but was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[128,3722,3341,2012,2646,3398],"class_list":["post-6387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","tag-alumni-2","tag-maryan-mural","tag-midnimo","tag-music","tag-somali","tag-the-cedar-cultural-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6390,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions\/6390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}