{"id":61404,"date":"2014-09-24T13:17:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=61404"},"modified":"2014-09-24T13:19:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T18:19:44","slug":"pig-pickin-entertainment-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2014\/09\/pig-pickin-entertainment-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig Pickin\u2019 entertainment announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, one of the biggest components of the Pig Pickin\u2019 atmosphere is the entertainment. The 29<sup>th<\/sup> annual Pig Pickin\u2019 will feature a variety of entertainment for Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night\u2019s entertainment will kick off with the local Cleveland trio Southern Halo at 9:15 p.m. following the Cleveland High School versus East Side High School crosstown rivalry football game at Parker Field McCool Stadium. As soon as the game ends, sisters Natalia, Christina and Hannah will perform a variety of blues, southern rock and pop country hits.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s entertainment will be provided by the Delta Music Institute bands Ol\u2019 Skool Revue and DeltaRoX. Ol\u2019 Skool Revue is comprised of Delta State students and faculty, playing hits from the blues, R&amp;B, soul and funk genres. DeltaRoX also consists of Delta State students and faculty and focuses on classic rock. There will also be a DJ in the park and a live radio broadcast from Jim Gregory. The Fighting Okra and Statesmen mascots will be signing autographs and taking pictures at the Legacy Tent.<\/p>\n<p>The Cheerleaders will lead a pep rally at 3 p.m. featuring the Delta State\u00a0band and football players. At 5 p.m., the winners of the BBQ cook team competition will be announced. The 26 teams competing this year will add to the atmosphere that continues to grow at\u00a0Statesmen Park.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Alumni Association at (662) 846-4660. To stay up to date on the Alumni Association\u2019s activities, follow these social media sites: Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deltastateuniversityalumni\"><strong>Statesmen Graduates<\/strong><\/a>), Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DSU_Alumni\"><strong>@DSU_Alumni<\/strong><\/a>), Tumblr (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsualumni.tumblr.com\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.dsualumni.tumblr.com<\/strong><\/a>), LinkedIn (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/DSU-Alumni-84668\/about\"><strong>DSU alumni<\/strong><\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/dsualumni\"><strong>dsualumni<\/strong><\/a>) and You Tube (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/DSUalumni1\"><strong>dsualumni1<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, one of the biggest components of the Pig Pickin\u2019 atmosphere is the entertainment. The 29th annual Pig Pickin\u2019 will feature a variety of entertainment for Friday and Saturday&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":61313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[834,10],"class_list":["post-61404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","tag-entertainment","tag-pig-pickin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61404","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61406,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61404\/revisions\/61406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}