{"id":8907,"date":"2017-10-18T18:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T23:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=8907"},"modified":"2017-10-18T18:57:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T23:57:19","slug":"fundraising-gets-jazzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/8907","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising gets jazzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/Jazzers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8908\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/Jazzers-200x113.jpg\" alt=\"Jazzers\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/Jazzers-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/Jazzers-400x226.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/Jazzers-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/Jazzers-800x451.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/Jazzers.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>by Lindsey Smith&#8211;<\/strong>The Marquee in downtown Sioux City burst with music Monday night as the Morningside Jazz Ensemble performed for a full house.<\/p>\n<p>The group is focusing on raising money to go to the Elmhurst Jazz Festival in Chicago which would be an opportunity for them to show off their skills in front of other talented Midwestern bands.<\/p>\n<p>The group played a range of jazz styles from old songs like \u201cBody and Soul\u201d and \u201cRock a Bye River\u201d to contemporary hits like \u201cTwo Seconds to Midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the bar stage was small, the group of 12-15 musicians filled the room with sound from the full singing voice of Shaley McDermott to the soulful solos of Dylan Root on tenor sax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/Trombone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8909\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/Trombone-200x213.jpg\" alt=\"Trombone\" width=\"200\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/Trombone-200x213.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2017\/10\/Trombone.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Every table was filled and there were people standing by the bar as the group performed for two hours straight.<\/p>\n<p>The musicians didn\u2019t mind the packed house though, like trumpeter Matthew Stogdill. He says, \u201cIt\u2019s my first time in The Marquee but my favorite part is just the music we make and letting it all flow, making music for people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Morningside Jazz Ensemble will once again perform on November 9\u00a0at 7:30 p.m. in Eppley Auditorium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lindsey Smith&#8211;The Marquee in downtown Sioux City burst with music Monday night as the Morningside Jazz Ensemble performed for a full house. The group is focusing on raising money to go to the Elmhurst Jazz Festival in Chicago which would be an opportunity for them to show off their skills in front of other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8911,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions\/8911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}