{"id":2794,"date":"2011-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/10\/17\/visitors-from-down-under-learn-about-the-blues\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:44","slug":"visitors-from-down-under-learn-about-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/10\/visitors-from-down-under-learn-about-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors from Down Under learn about the Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2011Releases\/S5031416.JPG\" alt=\"Australian blues tourists in Ewing Hall\" class=\"caption\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University recently introduced a group of Australian blues tourists to the Delta.&nbsp; The group, lead by Helen Jennings who hosts the weekly Australian Public Broadcasting System radio show &quot;Roots of Rhythm,&quot; has toured the United States, stopping at places like the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, and the B.B. King Museum.&nbsp; They were in the Delta for two nights, on their way to New Orleans.&nbsp; While in the Delta they stopped at Dockery Farms and spent an evening enjoying Po&#8217; Monkey&#8217;s Lounge.&nbsp; The group is pictured next to artist Sharon McConnell&#8217;s collection of blues masks, on public display in Ewing Hall on the Delta State University campus outside the Delta Center&#8217;s offices.&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University recently introduced a group of Australian blues tourists to the Delta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41139,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/41139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}