{"id":36,"date":"2009-03-30T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T01:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-03-31T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T17:22:57","slug":"magic-city-art-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Magic City Art Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve received a number of calls from musicians concerning\u00a0the status of music at this\u00a0year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiccityart.com\/index.html\">Magic City Art Connection<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectevents.com\/\">Perfect Events Music<\/a> been the primary provider of entertainment for the annual art show for ten+ years.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an impressive show.\u00a0 Held annually in downtown Birmingham&#8217;s Linn Park, it&#8217;s one of the largest and most successful in the Southeast.\u00a0 The festival&#8217;s director, Eileen Kunzman deserves credit for this.\u00a0 She started it all as a <em>back-yard<\/em> festival at her home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During my associations with the festival I&#8217;ve had the great pleasure of arranging performances by\u00a0the musical greats of our area:\u00a0 bluesman Willie King,\u00a0guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectevents.com\/artists.htm\">Eric Essix<\/a>, Hunter Bell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectevents.com\/artists.htm\">Khasma<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectevents.com\/artists.htm\">Just A Few Cats <\/a>(I want you at <em>my <\/em>party),\u00a0chanteuse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectevents.com\/artists.htm\">Marian McKay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectevents.com\/artists.htm\">The Martini Shakers <\/a>(hot rock-a-billy!), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectevents.com\/artists.htm\">The Connection Band<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectevents.com\/artists.htm\">AfterClass<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectevents.com\/artists.htm\">Chankayrie<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectevents.com\/artists.htm\">Herb Trotman Band<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectevents.com\/artists.htm\">Blue Galaxy String Quartet<\/a>, SO MANY OTHERS!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But musically speaking this year is different&#8230;budgetary\u00a0 issues&#8230;the economy, &#8220;etc&#8230;&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s possible that the MCAC &#8216;s music will be back on more solid ground next year, but who knows!\u00a0 So for now, I&#8217;m concentrating on business at hand.\u00a0 And despite the economy, &#8220;etc&#8230;&#8221; there&#8217;s a lot of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re one of my MCAC musicians, thanks for all you&#8217;ve given the Magic City Art Connection (and me).\u00a0 Let me hear from you.\u00a0 I so very much appreciate all you&#8217;ve contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve received a number of calls from musicians concerning\u00a0the status of music at this\u00a0year&#8217;s Magic City Art Connection.\u00a0\u00a0 Perfect Events Music been the primary provider of entertainment for the annual art show for ten+ years.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an impressive show.\u00a0 Held annually in downtown Birmingham&#8217;s Linn Park, it&#8217;s one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.perfectevents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}