{"id":1870,"date":"2009-11-10T12:27:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T20:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2009-11-10T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T20:27:17","slug":"an_eddie_higgins_jam_session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/11\/an_eddie_higgins_jam_session\/","title":{"rendered":"An Eddie Higgins Jam Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the high volume of comments<em> Rifftides<\/em> received following our piece on the death of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/09\/eddie_higgins_1932-2009.html\"target=\"_blank\">pianist Eddie Higgins<\/a>, the staff thought there might be widespread interest in a memorial concert. We bring you the announcement as it arrived by e-mail from Florida. This will give you time to make plans to fly in from, say, Tokyo or St. Thomas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><big>There will be a Jam Session tribute<br \/>\nto Eddie Higgins<br \/>\non Sunday, December 6<br \/>\nfrom 4pm to 6pm<br \/>\nin the ArtServe auditorium at 1350 E. Sunrise Blvd.<br \/>\n(Ft. Lauderdale Library branch)<\/big><\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Eddie%20Higgins%20at%20piano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eddie Higgins at piano.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/Eddie Higgins at piano-thumb-300x224-11331.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><small>Haydn (Eddie) Higgins 1932 to 2009<\/small><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Pot Luck finger food, please. Soft drinks provided. BYOB<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Free admission.<\/div>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><small>Contributions to the Haydn (Eddie) Higgins Memorial Music Scholarship Fund<br \/>\nwill be gratefully appreciated.<br \/>\nFor information about the jam session and scholarship, call 954-524-0805<\/small>.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think Haydn would like the <strong>BYOB<\/strong> part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the high volume of comments Rifftides received following our piece on the death of pianist Eddie Higgins, the staff thought there might be widespread interest in a memorial concert. We bring you the announcement as it arrived by e-mail from Florida. This will give you time to make plans to fly in from, [&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-1870","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\/1870","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=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}