{"id":1246,"date":"2013-11-19T12:55:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/sweet-plantain-in-concert-today\/"},"modified":"2013-11-19T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T17:55:30","slug":"sweet-plantain-in-concert-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/sweet-plantain-in-concert-today\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sweet Plantain&#8221; in concert today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Sweete Plaintain String Quartet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetplantain.com\/\"><strong>Sweet Plantain String Quartet<\/strong><\/a> will perform Thursday, Nov. 21 at noon in the Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium. Admission is free to all.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sweet Plantain<\/strong><\/em> is a refreshingly new quartet, one that \u201cbridges the gap between generations and musical genres.\u201d The four musicians came together from the Bronx, New Jersey and Venezuela to create a sound that is \u201ccontemporary, multicultural and very New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is a sound that fuses western classical traditions with hip-hop, jazz improv and Latin rhythms. <em><strong>Sweet Plantain<\/strong><\/em> tours extensively in the United States and around the world, and holds an apprenticeship program in the New York City public schools system under the sponsorship of Tony Bennett\u2019s non-profit organization, <em>Exploring the Arts<\/em> (ETA).<\/p>\n<p>This concert is presented by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvcc.edu\/culture\/\">Cultural Affairs Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:55:30 +0000 by\u00a0m.zemantauski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Sweet Plantain String Quartet will perform Thursday, Nov. 21 at noon in the Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium. Admission&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}