{"id":8657,"date":"2009-01-21T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/01\/21\/musicians-unite-for-gaza-and-mumbai-bloodshed\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:40:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:40:43","slug":"musicians-unite-for-gaza-and-mumbai-bloodshed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/21\/musicians-unite-for-gaza-and-mumbai-bloodshed\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians unite for Gaza and Mumbai bloodshed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Muslim, Jewish, and Hindu stars unite for concert<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"277\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/SalmanAhmad_180x232.jpg\"\/>LEADING musicians from around the world will collaborate for the first time this week in a series of peace concerts in India.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The five-day Coexist Concerts for Peace, which will take place at Diggi Palace in Jaipur, will use the recent conflict in Gaza and last years Mumbai terrorist attacks as a backdrop in calling for peace. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Among the star performers expected at the event are Pakistani Muslim rocker Salman Ahmad, Indian Hindu tabla master Samir Chatterjee, Jewish DJ Cheb I Sabbah and Israeli singer\u00a0Shye Ben-Tzur. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The concerts are being supported by the Coexist Foundation, a charity established in 2006 with the aim of promoting better understanding between Jews, Christians and Muslims.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>James Kidner, director of The Coexist Foundation said: &#8216;The concerts are a timely reminder that faith, like music, can be an instrument of peace. For world class musicians, people of different faiths, to collaborate in such a way, sends out a harmonic example of\u00a0peaceful coexistence between people of faith.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Writer and historian William Dalrymple said the recent Mumbai terror attacks have meant the interfaith dialogue the concerts seek to foster is particularly important <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe concerts aim to unite some of the most bloody and dangerous divisions in the world,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim, Jewish, and Hindu stars unite for concert LEADING musicians from around the world will collaborate for the first time this week in a series of peace concerts in India. &#13; The five-day Coexist Concerts for Peace, which will take place at Diggi Palace in Jaipur, will use the recent conflict in Gaza and last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}