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On August 7th the Center conducted an oral history interview with Jeff Machota, Shelley Masar, and Marten Stromberg about three of Urbana, Illinois’ iconic local music venues: Nature’s Table, Iron Post, and Rose Bowl.\u00a0 The spirited conversation covered a wide range of topics including how each location got its start and earned their unique music identities through their owners and the musicians who performed at these venues.\u00a0 The interview took place in front of the Sousa Archives exhibit, “Spaces Speak: Sounds of Champaign-Urbana\u2019s Music Venues.”\u00a0 To listen and watch the interview on the Center’s YouTube channel, visit\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/s9tX5psGS2k<\/a>.\u00a0 For further information about this casual conversation with Jeff, Shelley, and Marten email schwrtzs@illinois.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On August 7th the Center conducted an oral history interview with Jeff Machota, Shelley Masar, and Marten Stromberg about three of Urbana, Illinois’ iconic local music venues: Nature’s Table, Iron Post, and Rose Bowl.\u00a0 The spirited conversation covered a wide range of topics including how each location got its start and earned their unique music […]<\/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-5177","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\/5177","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=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}