{"id":972,"date":"2011-03-21T17:56:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefest.com\/kdstaging2\/news\/?p=972"},"modified":"2011-03-21T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:56:55","slug":"special-guests-dropping-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/special-guests-dropping-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Guests Dropping By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefest.com\/kdstaging2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/frmReadMail_Attachment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-973\" title=\"frmReadMail_Attachment\" src=\"https:\/\/thefest.com\/kdstaging2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/frmReadMail_Attachment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>The &#8220;B.U.I. (Beatles Under The Influence)&#8221; musicians forum on Sunday<br \/>\nafternoon at 3:45PM is to be joined by a very special, previously-unannounced  guest.  Annie Haslam &#8211; co-founder\/vocalist of the legendary British  fusion band Renaissance &#8211; has just been added to the lineup and will<br \/>\njoin musicians Gary Wright, Mark Hudson, Joey Molland, Mark Rivera and<br \/>\nforum creator\/moderator Martin Lewis in an informal conversation and<br \/>\njam session celebrating the myriad musical influences that shaped the<br \/>\nBeatles.<\/p>\n<p>Annie&#8217;s brother, the late Michael Haslam, was a ballad singer managed<br \/>\nby Beatles manager Brian Epstein in the early 1960s &#8211; who performed at<br \/>\nthe Beatles Christmas shows 1964-1965.  Annie is currently recording<br \/>\nand touring with Renaissance.  See:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anniehaslam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.AnnieHaslam.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renaissancetouring.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.RenaissanceTouring.com<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto:  Ebet Roberts<\/p>\n<p>Also coming down are Larry Kane on Sunday, Sid Bernstein on both Saturday and Sunday, and Billy J. Kramer is dropping by to say hello to his old friend Freda Kelly. See you in just a few more days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;B.U.I. (Beatles Under The Influence)&#8221; musicians forum on Sunday afternoon at 3:45PM is to be joined by a very special, previously-unannounced guest. Annie Haslam &#8211; co-founder\/vocalist of the legendary British fusion band Renaissance &#8211; has just been added to [&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-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}