{"id":211499,"date":"2026-10-22T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=211499"},"modified":"2026-10-22T21:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:01:10","slug":"choir-concert-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/22\/choir-concert-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Choir concert Monday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VWHS-fall-choir-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211500\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The vocal music department at Van Wert High School will present its Fall Choral Showcase at 7:30 p.m. Monday, October 26, at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center. The doors will open at 7 p.m. The Freshmen Choir, Sophomore Women&#8217;s Chorus, Select Acapella Choir, and Concert Choir will be featured. They will present an inspiring evening of music they celebrate the themes of joy, strength, and the power of music with songs such as \u201cI Will Lift My Voice and Sing!,&#8221; \u201cI Sing Because I\u2019m Happy,\u201d and \u201cThey Are Mother\u201d. The evening will conclude with a combined performance of the Van Wert High School alma mater and Cougar fight song, including a celebration of America&#8217;s 250th anniversary. The concert is free and open to the public.<em> Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vocal music department at Van Wert High School will present its Fall Choral Showcase at 7:30 p.m. Monday, October 26, at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center. The doors will open at 7 p.m. The Freshmen Choir, Sophomore Women&#8217;s Chorus, Select Acapella Choir, and Concert Choir will be featured. They will present an inspiring evening [&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-211499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-30 03:45:03","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\/211499","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=211499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211501,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211499\/revisions\/211501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}