{"id":2154,"date":"2018-10-18T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2024-05-22T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:00:10","slug":"banjos-banjos-banjos-stephen-wade-kicks-off-american-music-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2018\/10\/18\/banjos-banjos-banjos-stephen-wade-kicks-off-american-music-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Banjos, Banjos, Banjos &#8212; Stephen Wade Kicks Off American Music Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Stephen-Wade-image2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4492\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Stephen-Wade-image2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Stephen-Wade-image2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Stephen-Wade-image2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>This year&#8217;s American Music Month celebration kicks off today with a special 8pm banjo workshop this evening at Urbana&#8217;s Community Center for the Arts.\u00a0 Tomorrow Stephen will give his talk, &#8220;Beautiful Music Around Us: Exploring America&#8217;s Rich Banjo Heritage,&#8221; at 12:00pm at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.\u00a0 He will be bringing several of his historic banjos to complement his talk and the Center&#8217;s new &#8220;Samuel S. Stewart and America&#8217;s Banjo&#8221; exhibit which opened last week.\u00a0 Finally, his special concert, &#8220;Reconstructing America&#8217;s Rich Banjo Heritage,&#8221; will take place on Friday evening between 9:15 and 10:30pm at the Community Center for the Arts.\u00a0 All of these events are part of this year&#8217;s Folk and Roots Festival which the Center is sponsoring.\u00a0 While the workshop and lecture are free there is a $15 admission to his concert performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For those folks who have not experienced Stephen&#8217;s energetic performances and talks before, he is arguably the best &#8220;non-bluegrass&#8221; banjo player in America today.\u00a0 His concerts and talks are artistically inspired from the folk songs, stories, banjo tunes, and personal insights that he has encountered over decades of research and performances with countless musicians from around the country.\u00a0 So if you have a hankering for historic banjo melodies and lively folk tales that are combined with his deep understanding of America&#8217;s banjo heritage, why not stop by the Community Center for the Arts and the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music for some exciting music experiences.\u00a0 For further information about any of these programs please visit the Sousa Archives events calendar or just give the Center a call at 217-333-4577.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s American Music Month celebration kicks off today with a special 8pm banjo workshop this evening at Urbana&#8217;s Community Center for the Arts.\u00a0 Tomorrow Stephen will give his talk, &#8220;Beautiful Music Around Us: Exploring America&#8217;s Rich Banjo Heritage,&#8221; at 12:00pm at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.\u00a0 He will be bringing several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4601,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/4601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}