{"id":71985,"date":"2017-03-13T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ukulele-orchestra-of-great-britain-coming-to-cortez\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T22:30:08","slug":"ukulele-orchestra-of-great-britain-coming-to-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ukulele-orchestra-of-great-britain-coming-to-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain coming to Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3107a4a7-4107-4e91-88d6-5dead0c62f06&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1575\" height=\"1036\" alt=\"The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain takes the stage at the Montezuma-Cortez High School Auditorium at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 8.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain takes the stage at the Montezuma-Cortez High School Auditorium at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 8.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Founded in 1985, the eight-member orchestra has played more than 1,000 concerts all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>A concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a funny, virtuosic, awesome, foot-stomping affair of classics, country, rock \u2019n\u2019 roll and melodious light entertainment, featuring only Ukuleles and a menagerie of voices in a collection of toe-tapping oldies. There are no drums, pianos, backing tracks or banjos, and no electronic trickery \u2013 just the simple but rich palette of orchestration of ukuleles, singing and a bit of whistling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey extract more from their music than seems humanly possible,\u201d the New York Times wrote.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Jason Witt at 570-9051 or Lindsay Havran at 565-7676. Doors will open for season ticket holders at 6:15 p.m. and 6:25 p.m. for presold tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain takes the stage at the Montezuma-Cortez High School Auditorium at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 8.Courtesy photo Founded in 1985, the eight-member orchestra has played more than 1,000 concerts all over the world. A concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a funny, virtuosic, awesome, foot-stomping affair of classics, country, rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36,559],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-music"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71985","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=71985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71985"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}