{"id":3657,"date":"2012-07-03T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:48:47","slug":"salute-to-u-s-armed-forces-and-happy-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"Salute to U.S. Armed Forces and Happy Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Independence Day to all the U.S. readers. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinityjazz.com\/\">Trinity Jazz Orchestra<\/a> posted a video on YouTube of them performing my arrangement of the Armed Forces Medley last year on the 4th of July. It&#8217;s a good performance and very well produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fjAH9SymTmg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">While I&#8217;m at it, if you&#8217;re in western North Carolina looking for something to do to celebrate Independence Day (2012) tomorrow you can come out to hear me perform with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatmountainmusic.com\/eventdetail.asp?t=i&amp;m=7&amp;d=4&amp;y=2012&amp;evt=1\">Linda Gentille and the American Big Band<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatmountainmusic.com\/\">Smoky Mountain Performing Arts Center<\/a> in Franklin, NC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday evening (July 5, 2012) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashevillejazz.org\/\">Asheville Jazz Orchestra<\/a> is playing a free concert at Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/Programs\/Documents\/FurmanSummerMusic2012_webpdf.pdf\">Music by the Lake<\/a> concert series. We start playing at 7:30 at Furman&#8217;s outdoor amphitheater in Greenville, SC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">If you come out to either show be sure to come up and say hello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence Day to all the U.S. readers. The Trinity Jazz Orchestra posted a video on YouTube of them performing my arrangement of the Armed Forces Medley last year on the 4th of July. It&#8217;s a good performance and very well produced. While I&#8217;m at it, if you&#8217;re in western North Carolina looking for something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Salute to U.S. Armed Forces and Happy Independence Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1364,1372,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition","category-gigs","category-jazz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-WZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8220,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/8220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}