{"id":40802228946,"date":"2020-06-30T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/?p=40802228946"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:50:43","slug":"monmouth-u-presents-inaugural-music-and-arts-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/monmouth-u-presents-inaugural-music-and-arts-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Monmouth U. Presents Inaugural Music and Arts Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monmouth University presents its inaugural 2020 Music and Arts Festival, offering a wide array of arts experiences ranging from musical acts to virtual exhibitions, including special performances by the Garden State Philharmonic. The festival will\u00a0premiere on the <strong>Monmouth University Center for the Arts\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCU_Rr0RG2WLZzh0D0td_sWQ\"><strong>YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a> on\u00a0July 3 at 7 p.m.\u00a0and will be available to stream on the channel anytime afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Free and open to the public, the festival celebrates the themes of women\u2019s suffrage and civil rights in acknowledgement of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women\u2019s constitutional right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Music and Arts Festival was designed to provide the local community, along with the students, faculty, and staff at Monmouth University, with the opportunity to enjoy a top-flight Jersey Shore music and arts event each summer,\u201d said Kenneth Womack, festival coordinator and professor of English and popular music. \u201cIn the years to come, we plan to attract nationally and internationally acclaimed musicians and other fine artists to our campus to supplement our arts education programming and provide visitors with opportunities to experience premiere concerts and exhibitions right here on the Shore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To properly adhere to mass gathering and social distancing requirements, the 2020 festival will be prerecorded, with production directed remotely by recent university graduate Sara Wojciehowski \u201920 and graphic design efforts overseen by Honors School student Darika Lara-Rodriguez. Student performances by the Blue Hawk House Band and the Sea Sharps will also be featured. The program runtime will be between 60-85 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Music and Arts Festival is an interdisciplinary, university-wide event sponsored by the FirstEnergy Foundation, with additional support from The Grove\/West at Shrewsbury and Cammack Retirement.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit<strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/event\/monmouth-university-music-and-arts-festival-2020\/\">https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/event\/monmouth-university-music-and-arts-festival-2020\/<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monmouth University presents its inaugural 2020 Music and Arts Festival, offering a wide array of arts experiences ranging from musical acts to virtual exhibitions, including special performances by the Garden State Philharmonic. The festival will\u00a0premiere on the Monmouth University Center for the Arts\u00a0YouTube channel on\u00a0July 3 at 7 p.m.\u00a0and will be available to stream on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":40802228949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40802228946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-center-for-the-arts"],"subheadline":"","youtube":"","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2020\/06\/newsthumb.jpg","gallery":null,"featured_img":"<img width=\"1400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2020\/06\/musicheader.gif\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802228946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802228946"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802228946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802229715,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802228946\/revisions\/40802229715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802228949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802228946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802228946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802228946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}