{"id":1478,"date":"2008-10-04T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2008-10-04T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T08:05:00","slug":"big_festival_in_a_small_town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/10\/big_festival_in_a_small_town\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Festival In A Small Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Yakima Herald-Republic<\/em> asked me to write about the musicians who will appear in The Seasons Fall Festival October 10-18. The piece ran in <em>On Magazine<\/em>, the paper&#8217;s weekly arts and entertainment supplement. Here is the lead paragraph: <\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>A weeklong festival of this quality would make a splash in any major city, including New York and Los Angeles. The Seasons has managed to put it together in a high-desert town of 85,000 people in the upper left corner of the nation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">In the online version of the <em>YH-R<\/em> article opposite a reference&nbsp;to a picture of me,&nbsp;the editors have instead&nbsp;placed a photograph of Tierney Sutton, a much better idea. To read the piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakima-herald.com\/stories\/2008\/10\/02\/seasons-fall-side-by-side-music-festival-is-world-class\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I hope that&nbsp;<em>Rifftides<\/em> readers&nbsp;will be among the legion of listeners pouring into Yakima for what has the makings of a memorable week. Below is video of a performance by one of the festival&#8217;s headliners, Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, with Gonalez, flugelhorn&nbsp;and percussion; his brother Andy, bass; Larry Willis, piano; Steve Berrios, drums; and Joe Ford, alto saxophone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-q02MXxpx_A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima Herald-Republic asked me to write about the musicians who will appear in The Seasons Fall Festival October 10-18. The piece ran in On Magazine, the paper&#8217;s weekly arts and entertainment supplement. Here is the lead paragraph: A weeklong festival of this quality would make a splash in any major city, including New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}