{"id":104917,"date":"2018-07-20T06:48:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=104917"},"modified":"2018-07-20T06:48:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:48:22","slug":"summer-breezin-blows-in-big-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/07\/20\/summer-breezin-blows-in-big-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Breezin’ blows in big weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

This may be the biggest weekend of activities this summer since the Peony weekend on June 1 and Holiday at Home on July 4, which actually fell in the middle of the week.\u00a0Starting this Friday night, the Fountain Park Summer Music presents the perfect summer concert: Summer Breezin\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This\u00a0<\/span>band is\u00a0<\/span>a celebration of the music, life, and times of two of the most\u00a0dominant soft rock bands of their day — Seals & Crofts and America. This show is performed by the multi-talented cast of \u201cThe Tribute Company\u201d who\u00a0flawlessly perform the tight instrumentals and beautiful harmonies required to\u00a0<\/span>faithfully reproduce\u00a0<\/span>the music of these two great bands.<\/p>\n

In this show you will hear hit songs like \u201cSummer Breeze\u201d, \u201cWe May Never Pass This Way\u00a0Again\u201d, \u201cDiamond Girl\u201d, \u201cHorse with No Name\u201d, \u201cI Need You\u201d, and \u201cTin Man\u201d.\u00a0You will truly enjoy this wonderful music, but the show isn\u2019t only about the music — it\u2019s\u00a0also about the memories.<\/p>\n

The audience is treated to a short biography of each band,\u00a0along with some interesting facts on what inspired them to write these great songs.\u00a0The show also reminisces about life in America when these bands were dominating the charts.<\/p>\n

Summer Breezin\u2019 will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will take you back in time, and, for some, it will remind you of what you were doing when this great music first hit the charts. Summer Breezin\u2019 will entertain you from the first note to the last, and you will be humming these songs to yourself long after the show is over.\u200b\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are like me, this music shaped your popular musical tastes during those years of your youth.<\/p>\n

I swear, when I listen to Summer Breezin\u2019, although they are a tribute band, they sound just like I recall.\u00a0America, the band, is still touring.\u00a0As a matter of fact, we had the real America at the Niswonger a few years ago.\u00a0Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley are two of the three still touring as America. Unfortunately, Dan Peek, the third member passed away in 2011, but had left the band long before.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The hit songs America turned out in the 1970s are many.\u00a0Once again, their music was so good that we still hear it played today literally everywhere.<\/p>\n

Seals & Croft is another leading band of the Soft-Rock era of the 1970s.\u00a0Dan Seals passed away in 2009 from a form of cancer, but Croft is still living.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>However, the duo of such beautiful harmonic ballads was never more to be.\u00a0\u201c<\/span>Summer Breeze\u201d is one of Seals & Croft\u2019s biggest hits, thus the name of this tribute band we will have Friday night in Fountain Park (now moved to the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio).\u00a0The enjoyable thing about Friday\u2019s concert is that you will probably recognize every song.\u00a0Between Seals & Croft and America, there are tons of hits to sing and enjoy listening to.<\/p>\n

The music begins at 7 p.m. at the NPAC (no food will be served).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The following day brings lots of community events.\u00a0This Saturday includes the official opening of Franklin Park.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Van Wert County Foundation, Scott Niswonger, and Van Wert city officials will be on hand for a 10 a.m. ribboncutting ceremony and then at noon, activities are planned for the general public to enjoy.\u00a0I don\u2019t know about you, but it seems that this new city park is always bursting with activity from children.\u00a0These are kids who may have spent the summer indoors playing video games otherwise.\u00a0This is a very positive project spearheaded by The Foundation and Scott Niswonger!<\/p>\n

There is a very interesting memorial service planned at Woodland Cemetery in Van Wert at 11 a.m.\u00a0James L. Coe was a veteran of the War of 1812 and is buried in Van Wert\u2019s Woodland Cemetery.\u00a0Just recently, the Veterans Service Commission realized his site had no tombstone of recognition.\u00a0A full re-enacted military memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. this Saturday to honor this Van Wert citizen who lived to the ripe age of 109!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I am sure the public is invited to observe this well-deserved ceremony.<\/p>\n

Later in the day, Town Creek Live! takes center stage at the Wassenberg Art Center and along Central Avenue.\u00a0There will be all kinds of activities, fun, food, and music.\u00a0If you haven\u2019t seen the back of Wassenberg Art Center lately, you will be amazed!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>They have transformed that roughly paved parking lot into an artistic wonderland.\u00a0Now, let\u2019s just hope that Mother Nature cooperates for this busy weekend of wonderful activities in Van Wert, Ohio!<\/p>\n

FIN\u00c9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This may be the biggest weekend of activities this summer since the Peony weekend on June 1 and Holiday at Home on July 4, which actually fell in the middle of the week.\u00a0Starting this Friday night, the Fountain Park Summer Music presents the perfect summer concert: Summer Breezin\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 This\u00a0band is\u00a0a celebration of the music, life, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 07:50:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}