{"id":40745,"date":"2014-05-29T20:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=40745"},"modified":"2014-05-29T20:59:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:59:55","slug":"park-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/park-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert in the Park series opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/14may\/shellth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/>June 11 <!--more--><br \/>\nSummer is nearly here, and that means it&#8217;s time for the 2014 Concert in the Park season at the St. Johns City Park Performance Shell. This year&#8217;s schedule features local musicians and bands from across Michigan &#8211; both perennial favorites and newcomers &#8211; performing a variety of musical styles.<br \/>\nThe free concerts are held every Wednesday beginning June 11 and running through Aug. 27, at the beautiful outdoor concert venue in the St. Johns City Park. The music starts at 7 p.m.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/14may\/shell.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;This is our 11th year at the St. Johns City Park Performance Shell and I&#8217;m happy with the way this season has come together,&#8221; says Bill Tennant, Shell Performance Coordinator. &#8220;We have some great local groups performing again along with three new groups, two of them out of Detroit, that I&#8217;m super excited about being able to bring into St. Johns this summer.&#8221;<br \/>\nNew performers include The String Doctors with Joel Mabus, the David Gerald Band and the Pete &#8220;Big Dog&#8221; Fetters Band. The String Doctors, who are highly respected across the Midwest, will deliver &#8220;hot pickin,&#8221; vintage Country music at the July 9 show. The David Gerald Band out of Detroit bring hard-hitting contemporary Blues to St. Johns July 23. David performs throughout the United States including New York City and Chicago with his fantastic band. The Fetters Band, also from the Detroit area, will play a great mix of Motown, Classic Rock and Blues Aug. 13. The band performs throughout Midwest, garnering rave reviews.<br \/>\nPopular returning groups include the Jack Clarkson Band with St. Johns favorite Rodney Page, opening the 2014 season June 11. Other favorites back again in 2014 are Louie Longoria (June 18), the Sea Cruisers (July 2), the Mid-Michigan Festival Orchestra (July 16) and Beatles&#8217; tribute band Toppermost (Aug. 6).<br \/>\nThe Meridian Concert Band (June 25), and Emmy award-winning Kitty Donohoe (July 30) are back again in 2014 after a hiatus of several years, as is the &#8220;Best of Broadway&#8221; show (Aug. 20) featuring local performers singing popular show tunes.<br \/>\nIn a Concert in the Park finale tradition, Matt King will once again end the season on a high note Aug. 27 with his award-winning Elvis tribute show.<br \/>\nThe St. Johns Lions and Lioness Club staff a concession stand each week, offering light refreshments; all concerts are held rain or shine.<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 \/>\nFor information on Concert in the Park call the Clinton County Arts Council, (989) 224-2429, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clintoncountyarts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.clintoncountyarts.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 11<\/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-40745","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\/40745","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=40745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}