{"id":68,"date":"2005-07-29T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=68"},"modified":"2005-07-29T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T16:03:43","slug":"soul-of-the-blues-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Soul of the Blues Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/souloftheblues.com\/\">Soul of the Blues Summer Festival<\/a> is going extremely well.  We&#8217;ve had three nights in a row of great music with enthusiastic audiences who are spending money &#8211; and we&#8217;re only just now getting to the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Props go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/downstatenyblues.org\/\">Downstate New York Blues Assocation<\/a> for not only hooking us up with some of Long Island&#8217;s best blues acts, but arranging for them to come and play our Festival even though we aren&#8217;t able to offer them a guarantee.  Many of these highly accomplished regional acts rarely play in New York City for precisely the reason that clubs here can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t pay the talent except with a cut of the door.  That&#8217;s just the way things are, and as a result, there&#8217;s a lot less blues in the greatest city in the world than there should be.  <\/p>\n<p>Our home for Soul of the Blues, <a href=\"http:\/\/corneliastreetcafe.com\/\">Cornelia Street Cafe<\/a>, is an ususually supportive venue for the arts.  We appreciate &#8211; among other things &#8211; their toleration of music that gets a little rowdier (i.e. louder) and goes a little later than they&#8217;re used to.   Long live the Soul of the Blues!<\/p>\n<p>Details on this weekend&#8217;s Festival shows are <a href=\"http:\/\/souloftheblues.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soul of the Blues Summer Festival is going extremely well. We&#8217;ve had three nights in a row of great music with enthusiastic audiences who are spending money &#8211; and we&#8217;re only just now getting to the weekend. Props go to the Downstate New York Blues Assocation for not only hooking us up with some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=68\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soul of the Blues Festival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}