{"id":410,"date":"2014-03-11T18:54:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T18:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=410"},"modified":"2024-05-22T20:19:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:19:55","slug":"fleas-music-legacy-now-preserved-sousa-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2014\/03\/11\/fleas-music-legacy-now-preserved-sousa-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Flea&#8217;s&#8221; Music Legacy Now Preserved at the Sousa Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Head-East.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4368\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Head-East.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>The Gregory Heath Papers were acquired by the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music on February 28, 2014.\u00a0 Known by his friends as &#8220;Flea,&#8221; his collection includes photographs, news clippings, contracts, audio and video recordings, address books, and posters documenting Heath&#8217;s work as a concert promoter and owner of The Greg Heath Agency while working in Carbondale, Illinois\u00a0during the 1970s, and Celebrations, a local central Illinois music booking agency located in Danville, Illinois during the 1980s and 1990s.\u00a0 Music ensembles that were booked and promoted by Heath in central and southern Illinois include such groups as Head East, REO Speedwagon, Finchley Boys, Mighty Pranksters, Night Riders, and Hathaways.\u00a0 These materials provide a delightful snapshot of the many popular music ensembles that began their careers in central Illinois, and the numerous national acts that toured\u00a0 throughout Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gregory Heath Papers were acquired by the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music on February 28, 2014.\u00a0 Known by his friends as &#8220;Flea,&#8221; his collection includes photographs, news clippings, contracts, audio and video recordings, address books, and posters documenting Heath&#8217;s work as a concert promoter and owner of The Greg Heath Agency while [&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-410","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\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}