{"id":68466,"date":"2017-04-27T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T21:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dave-bennett-quartet-brings-americas-roots-of-pops-to-cortez\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T21:25:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T21:25:43","slug":"dave-bennett-quartet-brings-americas-roots-of-pops-to-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dave-bennett-quartet-brings-americas-roots-of-pops-to-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Bennett Quartet brings America\u2019s Roots of Pops to Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fa5a35be-862a-4c86-b363-eb93b5271ff1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"831\" height=\"725\" alt=\"The Dave Bennett Quartet plays Saturday at Montezuma-Cortez High School.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Dave Bennett Quartet plays Saturday at Montezuma-Cortez High School.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bennett covers swing, rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, country, Elvis and the Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>The quartet consists of Bennett on clarinet, guitar, piano and vocals; Doug Cobb on drums; Todd Weed on piano; and Kurt Krahnke on bass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis show will not only showcase Dave\u2019s clarinet, but his fine voice as well as his famous \u2018rockabilly\u2019 guitar and wild piano,\u201d Havran said. \u201cBacked by their full repertoire of Swing, Dixieland and Benny Goodman standards, they will branch out with Elvis, Roy Orbison and other country and rock music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennett, a Michigan native, is self-taught on the clarinet, which he said was given to him at age 10 by his grandparents. He then taught himself to play Benny Goodman songs by ear, and began the U.S. with several Dixieland bands at age 14.<\/p>\n<p>The show starts Saturday at 3 p.m. in the Montezuma-Cortez High School Auditorium. Doors will open at 2:15 for season ticket holders. Season tickets for the 2017-18 concert season will be available for purchase.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Jason Witt 970-570-9051 or Lindsay Havran 970-565-7676.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Bennett Quartet plays Saturday at Montezuma-Cortez High School.Courtesy photo Bennett covers swing, rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, country, Elvis and the Beatles. The quartet consists of Bennett on clarinet, guitar, piano and vocals; Doug Cobb on drums; Todd Weed on piano; and Kurt Krahnke on bass. \u201cThis show will not only showcase Dave\u2019s clarinet, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68466"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}