{"id":503,"date":"2010-08-20T06:23:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T11:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefest.com\/kdstaging2\/news\/?p=503"},"modified":"2010-08-23T12:15:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T17:15:04","slug":"chicago-fest-an-amazing-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/chicago-fest-an-amazing-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago FEST &#8211; an amazing weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-507\" title=\"logo2010\" src=\"https:\/\/thefest.com\/kdstaging2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/logo2010-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"logo2010\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>There are so many highlights from the weekend, that we don&#8217;t know where to start. Actually we do. Our first time Special Guest, <strong>GARY WRIGHT<\/strong> world premiered, <em><strong>To Discover Yourself,<\/strong><\/em> a song he co-wrote with George Harrison in 1971. Liverpool gave it a George treatment and the result was pure joy. If you want to hear this live version, tune in to Chris Carter&#8217;s <em>Breakfast With The Beatles<\/em>, this Sunday, August 22, on KLOS in Los Angeles. The show is also heard on <em>Little Steven&#8217;s Underground Garage<\/em> on Sirius Radio, but it may not air the same weekend. For more details, go to Gary&#8217;s site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedreamweaver.com \">www.thedreamweaver.com<\/a>. We hope to be posting the vieo version of the song in the next week. One of Gary&#8217;s appearances was with his (and our) old friend <strong>KLAUS VOORMANN<\/strong>. They talked about how they met and became so involved in George&#8217;s (and Ringo&#8217;s) recording sessions. They also performed two songs they played on the original hit versions of with both George and Ringo &#8211; <em><strong>It Don&#8217;t Come Easy<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Back Off Boogaloo.<\/strong><\/em> We also has three former members of Wings at the FEST in Chicago for the first time &#8211; <strong>DENNY LAINE, DENNY SEIWELL, and LAURENCE JUBER.<\/strong> Together, they treated us to a great set of Wings songs. Laurence also premiered his 2nd volume CD of Beatles classics, <em><strong>LJ Plays the Beatles 2,<\/strong><\/em> as well as solo acoustic concerts. Fans really enjoyed listening to <strong>CHRIS O&#8217;DELL<\/strong> talk of here days with Apple and her unique journey through that time period. We raised over $4,000 for Charity, with the Auctioning off of Signed Bags by Yoko and some USB Apple bringing in money. The winner of this year&#8217;s Battle of the Beatles Bands was The Bugs, the same young band that won in 2009. We congratulate them on their repeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many highlights from the weekend, that we don&#8217;t know where to start. Actually we do. Our first time Special Guest, GARY WRIGHT world premiered, To Discover Yourself, a song he co-wrote with George Harrison in 1971. Liverpool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}