{"id":2589,"date":"2009-10-07T22:06:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T03:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2009-10-07T22:06:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T03:06:55","slug":"2009-pittsfield-cityjazz-festival-opening-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/2009-pittsfield-cityjazz-festival-opening-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Pittsfield CityJazz Festival opening concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsfield, MA Oct. 7, 2009 &#8211; The 5th <a href=\"http:\/\/berkshiresjazz.org\/\">Pittsfield CityJazz Festiva<\/a>l opened with a performance at the Berkshire Athenaeum by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalhart.com\/index.html\">blood drum spirit<\/a><\/strong>, led by percussionist <strong>royal hartigan<\/strong>, and featuring bassist <strong>Wes Brown<\/strong>, saxophonist <strong>David Bindman<\/strong>, and pianist <strong>Art Hirahara<\/strong>. The group is dedicated to performing original compositions and improvisations connected to world music traditions. <\/p>\n<p>Get the full festival schedule here: <a href=\"http:\/\/BerkshiresJazz.org\/\">BerkshiresJazz.org<\/a>. This is a video montage from tonight&#8217;s performance:  <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oNEV59sEoRU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oNEV59sEoRU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsfield, MA Oct. 7, 2009 &#8211; The 5th Pittsfield CityJazz Festival opened with a performance at the Berkshire Athenaeum by blood drum spirit, led by percussionist royal hartigan, and featuring bassist Wes Brown, saxophonist David Bindman, and pianist Art Hirahara. The group is dedicated to performing original compositions and improvisations connected to world music traditions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-jazz","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}