{"id":2734,"date":"2016-01-28T19:11:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T03:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2016-01-28T19:11:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T03:11:58","slug":"art-lillards-recreated-heavenly-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/art-lillards-recreated-heavenly-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Lillard&#8217;s Recreated Heavenly Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Amanda Clarke\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>&#8220;The Artistry of Art Lillard,&#8221; is an event sponsored by the WOU Music Department, featuring drummer, bandleader, and composer Art Lillard, along with WOU students and staff who will play his tunes.<\/p>\n<p>According to his website, Art Lillard has been playing music professionally since 1970 and his nine-horn Heavenly Big Band has been playing in concert venues since 1987.<\/p>\n<p>They play a variety of music, from old jazz standards to samba, bossa nova, and swing styles.<\/p>\n<p>The WOU Heavenly Band will be covering Art Lillard\u2019s music. The band is composed of mostly Western students and some faculty, and is &#8220;recreating a Heavenly Band performance,&#8221; said Bergeron.<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of the Guest Artist Series, as stated on the WOU music homepage. The Guest Artist Series is &#8220;sponsored by IFC funds,&#8221; said Bergeron, so students can make use of their incidental fees through music.<\/p>\n<p>Art Lillard also appears as a guest drummer in Tom Bergeron&#8217;s Brasil Band, which performed at Western on Jan. 26 in Smith Music Hall, and will play in Eugene, OR, on Saturday, Jan. 30 at the Jazz Station.<\/p>\n<p>This event will take place on Friday, Jan. 29, from 7:30 to 9 p.m., there will be a performance by the WOU Heavenly Band in the Smith Music Hall, room 121 on campus. It is open to the public. Admission is $8 for general and $5 for students and senior citizens. WOU students with student ID get in free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Artistry of Art Lillard,&#8221; is an event sponsored by the WOU Music Department, featuring drummer, bandleader, and composer Art Lillard, along with WOU students and staff who will play his tunes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":2772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}