{"id":3555,"date":"2024-01-04T22:55:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2024-02-20T23:32:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T23:32:35","slug":"new-exhibit-opens-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2024\/01\/04\/new-exhibit-opens-today\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibit Opens Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/files\/2024\/01\/Natures-Table-Exhibit-Image-Final-Final.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3556\" src=\"https:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/files\/2024\/01\/Natures-Table-Exhibit-Image-Final-Final-1024x866.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a>In 1984 Cindy Churchill, a local patron of Nature\u2019s Table, described the restaurant and music venue as the place for \u201cbops and re-bops, till Mother Nature stops!\u201d Until it closed in 1991, Nature\u2019s Table served patrons some of the finest performances of jazz the Champaign-Urbana community had to offer. Under Terry Masar\u2019s ownership, Nature\u2019s Table specialized in organically grown vegetarian dishes. The one-story brick building across the street from the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts became the cultural hub of the Urbana-Champaign jazz community in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Nature\u2019s Table was not the region\u2019s first jazz venue. In fact, Champaign-Urbana supported a thriving jazz scene from the late 1930s to early 1950s. At that time, dance bands like the Dick Cisne Band and the Paul Karlstrom Orchestra frequently performed on the rooftop of Robeson\u2019s Department Store at the intersection of Church and Randolph Streets in Champaign.<\/p>\n<p>By 1979, several area bars and restaurants began offering jazz nights, featuring quartets and combos comprised of university students and alumni. These venues included: Zorba\u2019s, Treno\u2019s, Mabel\u2019s, the Red Lion, and, beginning in 1980, Nature\u2019s Table. The Table\u2019s intimate environment, good food, and proximity to the university made it fertile ground for the growth of the region\u2019s jazz scene, serving as both a stopping point for nationally renowned jazz artists on tour and as a \u201chome base\u201d for local saxophone legends like Ron Dewar and Guido Sinclair.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibit examines the visual and sonic record of the jazz scene as it existed at Nature\u2019s Table. \u00a0 For further information about this new exhibit call 217-333-4577 or email <a href=\"mailto:schwrtzs@illinois.edu\">schwrtzs@illinois.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1984 Cindy Churchill, a local patron of Nature\u2019s Table, described the restaurant and music venue as the place for \u201cbops and re-bops, till Mother Nature stops!\u201d Until it closed in 1991, Nature\u2019s Table served patrons some of the finest performances of jazz the Champaign-Urbana community had to offer. Under Terry Masar\u2019s ownership, Nature\u2019s Table [&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-3555","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\/3555","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=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}