{"id":8691,"date":"2011-03-22T13:33:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T19:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2011-03-22T13:33:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T19:33:47","slug":"christian-bluegrass-family-to-perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2011\/03\/22\/christian-bluegrass-family-to-perform\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Christian Bluegrass&#8221; Family To Perform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 17, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Subject:  &#8220;CHRISTIAN BLUEGRASS&#8221; FAMILY TO PERFORM<\/p>\n<p>By:  Veronica Barrientos<\/p>\n<p>The Link Family, a Christian Bluegrass band, will perform at College of the Ozarks on Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m., in the Jones Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>The band consists of Lance Link, the father and lead Bass player, mother Becky, five children and two in-laws from Lebanon, Missouri.  Each member of the family, including Lance and Becky&#8217;s 10 year-old son, participates in the performance by singing and playing instruments such as fiddles, banjos and guitars.<\/p>\n<p>Bluegrass music dates to the early 1600s.  Although it is thought to have originated in Ireland, Scotland or England, early American settlers of the Appalachian Mountains heavily influenced the musical style.  The songs depicted day-to-day experiences of settlers new to America.  The Link Family shares the same traditions as those families by sharing their own stories through song.<\/p>\n<p>The family has won many awards over the past five years, including second place in the Silver Dollar City Youth in Bluegrass contest three years in a row from 2004-2006.<\/p>\n<p>This convocations is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact Christian Action Ministries at (417) 690-3446.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 17, 2011 Subject: &#8220;CHRISTIAN BLUEGRASS&#8221; FAMILY TO PERFORM By: Veronica Barrientos The Link Family, a Christian Bluegrass band, will perform at College of the Ozarks on Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m., in the Jones Auditorium. The band consists of Lance Link, the father and lead Bass player, mother Becky, five children and two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}