{"id":75908,"date":"2016-04-30T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=75908"},"modified":"2016-04-30T07:43:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T12:43:10","slug":"country-stars-at-npac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/04\/30\/country-stars-at-npac\/","title":{"rendered":"Country stars at NPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Craig-Wayne-Boyd-at-NPAC-4-29-16.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75909\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Craig-Wayne-Boyd-at-NPAC-4-29-16.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Wayne Boyd at NPAC 4-29-16\" width=\"545\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Although 2014 \u201cThe Voice\u201d winner Craig Wayne Boyd had to cancel his original performance at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center because a freak snowstorm kept him in Nashville, Tennessee, his make-up date Friday night had a capacity crowd on its feet at times as he entertained with a variety of country and bluegrass tunes. Opening for Boyd was the up-and-coming country duo SmithField (below), which showed why it is becoming known in country music for its tight harmonies and original songs.<\/strong> <em>(photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SmithField-concert-at-NPAC-4-29-16.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75910\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SmithField-concert-at-NPAC-4-29-16.jpg\" alt=\"SmithField concert at NPAC 4-29-16\" width=\"545\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although 2014 \u201cThe Voice\u201d winner Craig Wayne Boyd had to cancel his original performance at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center because a freak snowstorm kept him in Nashville, Tennessee, his make-up date Friday night had a capacity crowd on its feet at times as he entertained with a variety of country and bluegrass tunes. Opening [&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-75908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 01:23:10","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\/75908","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=75908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}