{"id":3498,"date":"2026-08-14T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:34:03","slug":"outreach-foundations-marimba-band-wins-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/2026\/08\/14\/outreach-foundations-marimba-band-wins-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Outreach Foundation&#8217;s Marimba Band Wins Big!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to our amazing Marimba band, who took part in the International Marimba and Steelpan competition that took place from 25 to 26 July 2026 and came home with trophies in each category they entered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Competing against over 2,300 participants from across the globe, our guys and gals did us proud! We are very impressed with your talents and the firsts, seconds and third places you got! Every award is a testiment to your commitment and your love of the music you play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Marimba and Steelpan competition is one of the largest festivals of its kind in the world and marimba and steelpan bands from all of the world compete over the two days across multiple age groups and categories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Marimba-awards-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Outreach Foundation's marimba band won trophies in every category they entered in the International Marimba and Steelpan Competition for 2026\" class=\"wp-image-3499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Marimba-awards-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Marimba-awards-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Marimba-awards-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Marimba-awards-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Marimba-awards.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our amazing Marimba band, who took part in the International Marimba and Steelpan competition that took place from 25 to 26 July 2026 and came home with trophies in each category they entered. Competing against over 2,300 participants from across the globe, our guys and gals did us proud! We are very impressed with your talents and the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[110,118,30,64],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-marimba","tag-marimba-competition","tag-outreach-foundation","tag-youth-empowerment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outreachfoundation.co.za\/wpof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}