{"id":29580,"date":"2012-06-28T20:59:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T00:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=29580"},"modified":"2012-06-28T20:59:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T00:59:22","slug":"park-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/park-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Meridian Community Band to provide a bang-up 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12june\/meridianth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/>Concert in the Park<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Meridian Community Band will be on hand to help the St. Johns area celebrate during its traditional Independence Day festivities at the City Park.<br \/>\nThe Meridian Community Band was founded in 1977 as part of the Okemos Community Education program and became an independent organization in 1983.<br \/>\nThe Band will perform under the direction of Carolyn Sherrill. the musical director. She has held that post since 1990. Because of Carolyn&#8217;s emphasis on continuing education and musical growth, the band has significantly expanded its repertoire to include a wide variety of contemporary, popular and classical band literature. Her commitment and attention to detail has allowed the band to evolve into a mature and highly respected community organization.<br \/>\nThe 4th of July concert in St. Johns completes the band&#8217;s regular season which will begin again after Labor Day.<br \/>\nJoin your friends and neighbors at the Park next Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. to celebrate this year&#8217;s Independence Day in style.<br \/>\nConcert in the Park is sponsored by the Clinton County Arts Council and the city of St. Johns, with support from the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.<br \/>\nConcerts are held each Wednesday evening, beginning at 7 p.m., in the St. Johns City Park. The St. Johns Lions and Lioness Club staff a concession stand that offers light refreshments. All concerts are held rain or shine.<br \/>\nFor information on Concert in the Park call the Clinton County Arts Council, (989) 224-2429.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12june\/meridian.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concert in the Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}