{"id":289,"date":"2009-10-16T19:09:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T23:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/?p=289"},"modified":"2012-05-19T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T17:10:18","slug":"planet-africa-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Planet Africa Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the awards gala will be hosted by Michael Clemons and his wife Diane, a superb Jazz vocalist who will also perfom. Best known as &#8220;Pinball&#8221; for his star performance in football, Michael also served as Head Coach before becoming the CEO of the Toronto Argonauts, one of North America&#8217;s leading clubs. He is also a celebrated motivational speaker, with a tender heart for our youth. Michael and his wife also run the Michael &#8220;Pinball&#8221; Clemons Foundation, with projects in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Also visit the Planet Africa web site for more info on the awards and recepients.<\/p>\n<p>Jaivah performing alongside Yinka Farinde &#038; the Afrobeat Band.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"post-meta-key\">Date<\/span> : Saturday, October 24, 2009<br \/>\n<span class=\"post-meta-key\">Time<\/span> : VIP Reception : 6 PM; Dinner : 7 PM<br \/>\n<span class=\"post-meta-key\">Venue<\/span> : International Centre, The New Orion Ballroom, 6900 Airport Road, Toronto<br \/>\n<span class=\"post-meta-key\">Tickets<\/span> : Advance $80; Door $100<br \/>\n<span class=\"post-meta-key\">Info &#038; Tickets<\/span> : www.PlanetAfrica.net, 416.247.5777<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/yinka.jpg\" alt=\"yinka saba jaivah planet africa awards\" title=\"yinka saba jaivah planet africa awards\" width=\"230\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-290\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the awards gala will be hosted by Michael Clemons and his wife Diane, a superb Jazz vocalist who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sabadance.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}