{"id":1023,"date":"2016-03-14T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2016-03-14T18:13:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:13:55","slug":"bluegrass-beat-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"Bluegrass beat goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1024\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/102.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1024\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/102-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/102-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/102-768x563.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/102-1024x751.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/102-1200x880.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/102.jpg 1990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Bob Brown, Bruce Clark, John Bruce and Randy Ihara entertain at Morningside House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They arrive early, sometimes as much as an hour before the first note is played.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Morningside House, a Leesburg assisted-living facility, come to the dining room and position their wheelchairs or claim seats in rows of chairs \u2014 just as they have nearly every Tuesday evening for 19 years. The folding doors at the front of the room are opened to reveal the activity room, which has been transformed into a stage. One by one, the musicians take their places.<\/p>\n<p>Promptly at 7 p.m., guitarist Bob Brown opens the show with a joke and then introduces the first song, and the musicians launch into an up-tempo rendition of a classic Lefty Frizzell song. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/weekly-jam-sessions-have-entertained-seniors-in-loudoun-for-19-years\/2016\/03\/11\/bb0b02ec-e79e-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">longest-running weekly jam session in Loudoun County<\/a> is underway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/weekly-jam-sessions-have-entertained-seniors-in-loudoun-for-19-years\/2016\/03\/11\/bb0b02ec-e79e-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, March 13, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They arrive early, sometimes as much as an hour before the first note is played. Residents of Morningside House, a Leesburg assisted-living facility, come to the dining room and position their wheelchairs or claim seats in rows of chairs \u2014 just as they have nearly every Tuesday evening for 19 years. The folding doors at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluegrass beat goes on&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[94,14,3,2],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-arts","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}