{"id":1544,"date":"2011-02-14T23:21:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T04:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2017-12-05T20:45:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T01:45:40","slug":"sophisticated-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=1544","title":{"rendered":"Sophisticated Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1543\" style=\"width: 554px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1543\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1543 \" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"Antoinette Montague, jazz vocalist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/antoinettemontague-str.jpg\" alt=\"Antoinette Montague, jazz vocalist, at the Sheraton Hotel Ballroom\" width=\"544\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/antoinettemontague-str.jpg 544w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/antoinettemontague-str-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoinette Montague, <a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #676c6c;\" href=\"http:\/\/sovaldihepatitisc.net\/\">mind<\/a> jazz vocalist, at the Sheraton Hotel Ballroom<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Singer and Newark (aka Brick City)-native Antoinette Montague returned to Syracuse for this year&#8217;s Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation Black History Month Cabaret. Montague&#8217;s\u00a0range includes jazz, blues and gospel. She sang several standards and\u00a0also\u00a0interpreted &#8220;<em>Lift Every Voice and Sing<\/em>,&#8221;\u00a0but\u00a0really moved the crowd with &#8220;<em>Miss Celie&#8217;s Blues (Sister).&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The show hit a cresendo when Montague was joined on stage by wealth management professional Vicki Brackens for a duet.\u00a0 Brackens was this year&#8217;s Cabaret sponsor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1545\" style=\"width: 554px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1545\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1545 \" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"Antoinette Montague sings with Vicki Brackens\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/antoinettemontague-vb-duet.jpg\" alt=\"Antoinette Montague sings with Vicki Brackens\" width=\"544\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/antoinettemontague-vb-duet.jpg 544w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/antoinettemontague-vb-duet-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoinette Montague sings with Vicki Brackens (left).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Montague\u00a0was accompanied by Joe Carello (sax), Rick Montalbano (keys), Larry Luttinger (drums) and Darryl Pugh (bass). She closed the show with\u00a0&#8220;<em>When The Saints Go Marchin In<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1560\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1560\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1560 \" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"Antoinette Montague\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/antoinettemontague-solo.jpg\" alt=\"Antoinette Montague\" width=\"288\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/antoinettemontague-solo.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/antoinettemontague-solo-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoinette Montague<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer and Newark (aka Brick City)-native Antoinette Montague returned to Syracuse for this year&#8217;s Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation Black History Month Cabaret. Montague&#8217;s\u00a0range includes jazz, blues and gospel. She sang several standards and\u00a0also\u00a0interpreted &#8220;Lift Every Voice and Sing,&#8221;\u00a0but\u00a0really moved the crowd with &#8220;Miss Celie&#8217;s Blues (Sister).&#8221;\u00a0 The show hit a cresendo when Montague [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,18],"tags":[1407,1422,1427,1423,253,638,2403,40,1426,639,4999,1425,113,1424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544"}],"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=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23593,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/23593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}