{"id":5038,"date":"2013-03-15T23:06:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T04:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2017-12-11T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:46:03","slug":"ladies-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5038","title":{"rendered":"Ladies First"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5039\" style=\"width: 662px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5039\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5039\" title=\"Tamar Smithers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tsmithers-col-cfac.jpg\" alt=\"Tamar Smithers sang classics from the great soul music songbook as well as contemporary favorites.\" width=\"652\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tsmithers-col-cfac.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tsmithers-col-cfac-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamar Smithers sang classics from the\u00a0soul music songbook as well some contemporary favorites.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bravo to the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) for breathing some life into Third Thursdays and spicing up things along\u00a0the Connective Corridor (Midtown section)\u00a0during their Journey\u00a0Through\u00a0Music of the African Diaspora series.\u00a0 The most recent installment of the Journey,\u00a0 which was called a salute to Women in Music, featured local divas Erika Lovette and Tamar Smithers.\u00a0 These sophisticated ladies\u00a0belted out sweet soul music (from original compositions to spirituals to Lena Horne to Beyonce and Mary J) and worked the capacity\u00a0crowd like it was the Essence Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p>This was the final installment of the JMAD for the season. The series previously included acts such as Samba Laranja and Akuma Roots.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5040\" style=\"width: 662px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5040\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5040\" title=\"Erika Lovette\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/elovettecol-cfac.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Lovette, gave the crowd some serious Divatude.\" width=\"652\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/elovettecol-cfac.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/elovettecol-cfac-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Lovette gave the crowd just enough\u00a0divatude during her performance and she also gave a shout out to local musicians Charles &#8220;CJack&#8221; Jackson and Eddie &#8220;EJ&#8221; Dowdell.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bravo to the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) for breathing some life into Third Thursdays and spicing up things along\u00a0the Connective Corridor (Midtown section)\u00a0during their Journey\u00a0Through\u00a0Music of the African Diaspora series.\u00a0 The most recent installment of the Journey,\u00a0 which was called a salute to Women in Music, featured local divas Erika Lovette and Tamar Smithers.\u00a0 [&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":[2524,573,861,804,2691,2690,853,4999,113,2689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038"}],"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=5038"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23993,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions\/23993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}