{"id":3926,"date":"2018-10-05T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:00:57","slug":"musical-extravaganza-amazes-on-family-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3926","title":{"rendered":"Musical Extravaganza Amazes on Family Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Jordan Hanson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Musical Extravaganza is an amazing annual event hosted by CAB during Family Weekend. On the evening of Sept. 29, many of the musical groups, instrumental and vocal, on campus gathered together to premier their new members and ensemble sounds for their family and friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite illness among some of the participants due to the typical illness that most students contract was being passed around campus, Roanoke musicians embodied the classic phrase: the show must go on! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jazz ensemble performed first and played several pieces, including a remarkable rendition of \u201cRoute 66.\u201d Following, The Roanotes displayed their a cappella talent and featured soloists. AJ Waddell brought down the house with her solo in their arrangement of Banks\u2019s \u201cBetter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oriana performed thirdly. The women\u2019s group sang two songs, one of which was a fun medley of songs from \u201cFiddler on the Roof.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mainstreet maintained the girl power with lovely voices and harmony, ending their set with a classic cover of \u201cAmazing Grace.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To conclude the show, the Roanoke College A Cappella Choir performed. Their set included a medley of songs from \u201cWest Side Story.\u201d The women sang \u201cWe Are Family\u201d for the finale, an appropriate move for family weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite obstacles, the musical groups pressed onwards in the true spirit of music and performance, putting on their best show and singing from their hearts. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Jordan Hanson The Musical Extravaganza is an amazing annual event hosted by CAB during Family Weekend. On the evening of Sept. 29, many of the musical groups, instrumental and vocal, on campus gathered together to premier their new members and ensemble sounds for their family and friends. Despite illness among some of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}