{"id":9408,"date":"2011-06-16T02:09:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T07:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=9408"},"modified":"2011-06-16T02:09:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T07:09:26","slug":"after-midnight-brings-70s-to-van-wert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/06\/16\/after-midnight-brings-70s-to-van-wert\/","title":{"rendered":"After Midnight brings &#8217;70s to Van Wert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a Phoenix rising from the fire, the rockin\u2019 1970s are back, and they are hotter than ever!\u00a0 After Midnight<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>brings audiences all the fabulous Seventies flavors: the bombast of KISS and Foghat, the epic grandeur of Kansas, Styx, and Journey, the musicianship of Led Zeppelin and Van Halen, the glorious melodies of K.C. and the Sunshine Band and the Bee Gees, and so very much more!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9409\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/After-Midnight-promo-pic-6-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/>The five music industry veterans who make up After Midnight<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>have shared the stage with artists such as Kansas, Eddie Money, and even did a stint as Tommy Tutone\u2019s band.\u00a0 So not only can they deliver note perfect renditions of everybody\u2019s favorite songs, they also know how to serve them up with a fun-loving party attitude.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about After Midnight, check out the band\u2019s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockinaftermidnight.com\">www.rockinaftermidnight.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This concert is the second of a series of eight concerts as part of the Fountain Park Summer Music Series, sponsored by The Van Wert County Foundation. The concert begins at 7 p.m.\u00a0 Fountain Park is located at the corner of Jefferson and Main streets in downtown Van Wert.\u00a0 All concerts are free and open to the public. Bring a lawn chair or blanket to enjoy the music.<\/p>\n<p>Food and drinks are also available in the park, served by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5803 Men\u2019s Auxiliary.<\/p>\n<p>Other future Fountain Park concerts this summer are: June 24, Simon &amp; Garfunkel Tribute; July 1, \u201cCelebrate America!\u201d with the Lima Symphony Pops Orchestra; July 15, The Tacketts and the Fox Brothers from Nashville; July 22, Dwight Lennox &amp; the Lennox Express; July 29, Gary Jenkins and Thundering Hearts; and August 12, Gary Puckett &amp; the Union Gap.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of bad weather, the concerts are moved to the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio, 10700 State Route 118, located on the south edge of Van Wert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a Phoenix rising from the fire, the rockin\u2019 1970s are back, and they are hotter than ever!\u00a0 After Midnight brings audiences all the fabulous Seventies flavors: the bombast of KISS and Foghat, the epic grandeur of Kansas, Styx, and Journey, the musicianship of Led Zeppelin and Van Halen, the glorious melodies of K.C. and [&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-9408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 19:25:24","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\/9408","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=9408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}