{"id":12229,"date":"2015-02-01T23:29:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T04:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=12229"},"modified":"2018-04-01T14:06:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T19:06:56","slug":"week-in-review-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=12229","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12231\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12231\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12231 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lydc-cfac-fans.jpg\" alt=\"Vocalist Lydia Caesar at CFAC\" width=\"656\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lydc-cfac-fans.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lydc-cfac-fans-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer-song writer Lydia Caesar brought the crowd to its feet at CFAC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re not sure if the bass was too strong or it was the profound timbre of Lydia Caesar&#8217;s voice that caused The Community Folk Art Center to tremble on Friday. Her performance,\u00a0which was co-sponsored by WAER-FM 88, was the official kick-off for Syracuse University&#8217;s Black History Month festivities. The Queens, NY-native showed her range by singing a slow-moving musical love letter she calls &#8220;St. Louis,&#8221; then moved further into the set with the bouncy &#8220;Lottery.&#8221; She also sang several covers.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd seemed to appreciate her repertoire and showered her with praise.<\/p>\n<p>Caesar was backed up for the visit by Syracuse&#8217;s Brownskin band.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12240\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12240\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12240 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lc-cfac-sing5.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia's new single &quot;Through it all&quot; will be released Feb. 10.\" width=\"340\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lc-cfac-sing5.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lc-cfac-sing5-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia&#8217;s new single &#8220;Through it all&#8221; will be released Feb. 10.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not sure if the bass was too strong or it was the profound timbre of Lydia Caesar&#8217;s voice that caused The Community Folk Art Center to tremble on Friday. Her performance,\u00a0which was co-sponsored by WAER-FM 88, was the official kick-off for Syracuse University&#8217;s Black History Month festivities. The Queens, NY-native showed her range by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[4229,2950,573,4293,4288,4999,4294,113,4295,1710,3005],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12229"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24894,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12229\/revisions\/24894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}