{"id":96731,"date":"2018-09-11T10:32:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=96731"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:32:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:32:48","slug":"a-new-season-begins-with-an-old-friend-jonathan-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=96731","title":{"rendered":"A new season begins with an old friend: Jonathan Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-96732\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/John-Edwards-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/John-Edwards-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/John-Edwards-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/John-Edwards.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>A new season begins with an old friend: Jonathan Edwards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Warm as summer sunshine, real as the truth, intimate as a long overdue visit between old friends &#8230; such is a Jonathan Edwards concert. Four decades into a stellar career of uncompromising musical integrity, the man simply delivers, night after night &#8211; songs of passion, songs of insight, songs of humor, all rendered in that pure and powerful tenor which, like fine wine, has only grown sweeter with age.<\/p>\n<p>This is one veteran performer who is neither grizzled nor nostalgic. These days Jonathan is likely to be found on the road. \u201cI&#8217;ve been&#8230;doing what I do best, which is playing live in front of people. I&#8217;ve been concentrating on that and loving it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1971, Jonathan has released 15 albums, including Blue Ridge, his standard-setting collaboration with bluegrass favorites the Seldom Scene, and Little Hands, his collection of children&#8217;s songs, which was honored with a National Library Association award.<\/p>\n<p>Join us this Friday, September 14 at 8pm (doors open at 7:30).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/app.axnt.us\/t\/r-l-jjidlihl-njthihyut-q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/app.axnt.us\/t\/r-l-jjidlihl-njthihyut-q\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536760514577000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHDqdXbouUzNcDvON5X62Yu9pfDIg\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to buy tickets and find more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new season begins with an old friend: Jonathan Edwards Warm as summer sunshine, real as the truth, intimate as a long overdue visit between old friends &#8230; such is a Jonathan Edwards concert. Four decades into a stellar career of uncompromising musical integrity, the man simply delivers, night after night &#8211; songs of passion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}