{"id":41070,"date":"2013-07-24T05:41:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=41070"},"modified":"2013-07-24T05:41:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:41:56","slug":"guess-whos-in-the-park-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/07\/24\/guess-whos-in-the-park-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess who’s in the park on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the accompanying picture\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0answer the question of who will be in Fountain Park this Friday, then maybe the following songs will help: \u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads,\u201d Thank God I\u2019m a Country Boy,\u201d \u201cAnnie\u2019s Song,\u201d \u201cCalypso,\u201d \u201cRocky Mountain High,\u201d and about another 50 or so songs that topped the billboards for nearly three decades!<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t bring John Denver to Fountain Park, for obvious reasons, but we can bring the next best thing and that would be Ted Vigil and his new sidekick, Steve Weisberg.\u00a0 Ted lives in the state of Oregon and this will be his second trip to Van Wert.\u00a0 Everyone enjoyed him so much; I just knew we had to bring him back.<\/p>\n

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Ted Vigil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since Ted was with us in the park back in 2009, he has teamed with Steve Weisberg, one of John Denver\u2019s former guitar, dobro, and slide guitar players, as well as music arranger.\u00a0 If you check out some of Steve\u2019s website or even some of John Denver\u2019s recordings, you will see that Steve was an integral band member who experienced great success with John Denver.<\/p>\n

I caught up with Ted and Steve in New York this past January and he fondly remembered his experience in Van Wert in 2009.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t long before I realized it was time to bring him and Steve back to Fountain Park this year.<\/p>\n

Many tribute bands try to emulate the sound of the music, but rarely can someone do it so well, both musically and visually.\u00a0 As you can see from the picture, Ted is a near spittin\u2019 image of John Denver.\u00a0 Now that alone wouldn\u2019t make much of a concert, but when you can sing and sound so much like the actual artist that an actual band member wants to team up with you, that says quite a bit.<\/p>\n

Ted Vigil actually got the tribute act started after winning a \u201ccelebrity look-alike\u201d contest on a TV show.\u00a0 After nearly startling a studio audience with his likeness to Denver, his tribute act was off and running.\u00a0 He had already been writing, recording and performing his original compositions, but after this 2007 appearance, it became obvious that his future was as a tribute to John Denver.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sad ending that finished the life prematurely of one of our most loved singers of his time, but his music lives forever.\u00a0 And now with Ted Vigil and Steve Weisberg, we can re-live those magical musical moments when sunshine was on our shoulders and made us happy. \u00a0I\u2019ll just bet you will be singing along with nearly every song you hear!\u00a0 \u00a0Don\u2019t miss this musical opportunity in Fountain Park Friday night as we pay tribute to one of America\u2019s finest in Ted Vigil\u2019s Rocky Mountain High Tribute!<\/p>\n

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

If the accompanying picture\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0answer the question of who will be in Fountain Park this Friday, then maybe the following songs will help: \u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads,\u201d Thank God I\u2019m a Country Boy,\u201d \u201cAnnie\u2019s Song,\u201d \u201cCalypso,\u201d \u201cRocky Mountain High,\u201d and about another 50 or so songs that topped the billboards for nearly three decades! We […]<\/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-41070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 10:46:22","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\/41070","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=41070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}