{"id":54933,"date":"2023-12-20T21:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:16:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T22:16:49","slug":"over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations","title":{"rendered":"Over 135 artists get Maso Awards nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>More than 135 artists have been nominated for this year\u2019s Maso Awards slated for 25th November 2023 at Bingu International Conference Centre (BICC).<\/p>\n<p>The nominations were released yesterday and voting started the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Malawi24, Maso Awards Chief Executive Officer Augustine Mukisi said preparations are in progress and this year\u2019s event will run under the theme; \u2018Towards wealth creation and self-reliance through arts\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe arts can take a big role in achieving Malawi 2063 agenda hence coming up with this theme\u201d said Mukisi.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the categories include Best Artist (Male) which has Malinga Mafia, Driemo, Zeze Kingston, Kell Kay and Eli Njuchi as nominees.<\/p>\n<p>The category of Best Artist (Female) has Kellie Devine Njuchi, Temwa, Tuno, Leslie and Keturah.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mukisi, there shall be the red-carpet opening up the event at 5PM on 25th November followed by the award show at 7PM to 10:00PM.<\/p>\n<p>The event has 35 categories where 32 are permanent while three are temporary and have been added to reflect the theme.<\/p>\n<p>The three temporary categories are innovative entrepreneur of the year (Honorary award), best Corporate event sponsor of the year and best Corporate art event promoter\/procurement of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The voting for 2023 Maso Awards which started yesterday 26th October, 2023 will run up 24th November, 2023 and voting will be done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. More than 135 artists have been nominated for this year\u2019s Maso Awards slated for 25th November 2023 at Bingu International Conference Centre (BICC). The nominations were released yesterday and voting started the same day. Speaking to Malawi24, Maso Awards Chief Executive Officer Augustine Mukisi said preparations are in progress and this year\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[233,371,368,234,577,369],"class_list":["post-54933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-awards","tag-malawi","tag-music","tag-social-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Over 135 artists get Maso Awards nominations - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More than 135 artists have been nominated for this year\u2019s Maso Awards slated for 25th November 2023 at Bingu Internation ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Over 135 artists get Maso Awards nominations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More than 135 artists have been nominated for this year\u2019s Maso Awards slated for 25th November 2023 at Bingu Internation ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-20T21:58:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-20T22:16:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/12\/sm_1703097813.242667.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Over 135 artists get Maso Awards nominations\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-12-20T21:58:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-20T22:16:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations\"},\"wordCount\":234,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/12\/sm_1703097813.242667.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Awards\",\"Malawi\",\"music\",\"social media\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/over-135-artists-get-maso-awards-nominations\",\"name\":\"Over 135 artists get Maso Awards nominations - 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