{"id":192889,"date":"2025-05-16T21:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T02:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192889"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T02:01:18","slug":"vw-area-community-band-to-perform-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/16\/vw-area-community-band-to-perform-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Area Community Band to perform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, May 23, is when the Van Wert Area Community Concert Band will present a concert in the band shell of Fountain Park in downtown Van Wert. The program will begin at 7 p.m. and is free to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a kickoff to the Memorial Day weekend, music performed at the concert will include patriotic selections that are intended to reflect, revitalize and rekindle the pride that each of us have as citizens of the best country in the world, the United States of America. A few of these selections are \u201cWhen Johnny Comes Marching Home,\u201d \u201cPhilharmonic Military March,\u201d \u201cIt Is Well With My Soul,\u201d \u201cSweet Land of Liberty,\u201d \u201cVision of Courage,\u201d \u201cGod Bless America,\u201d and \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Area military personnel and veterans will also be honored with a Salute To America\u2019s Finest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the event of inclement weather the concert will be held in the Niswonger Performing Arts Center auditorium. Starting Thursday, please listen to local radio stations WKSD 99.7FM or WERT 1220AM\/104.3FM or visit the Van Wert Area Community Concert Band Facebook page for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band is directed by Richard Sherrick and features members from Van Wert, Ohio City, Delphos, Convoy, Chat, Middle Point, Spencerville, Celina and Rockford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band will also provide music for the Ohio City American Legion Memorial Day ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday, May 26, at Woodlawn Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information Friday, May 23, is when the Van Wert Area Community Concert Band will present a concert in the band shell of Fountain Park in downtown Van Wert. The program will begin at 7 p.m. and is free to the public. As a kickoff to the Memorial Day weekend, music performed at [&hellip;]<\/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-192889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 16:15:39","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\/192889","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=192889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192890,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192889\/revisions\/192890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}