{"id":85800,"date":"2020-02-05T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=85800"},"modified":"2020-02-05T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:20:23","slug":"an-acoustic-evening-with-mark-chesnutt-and-joe-diffie-at-the-bologna-performing-arts-center-on-march-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2020\/02\/an-acoustic-evening-with-mark-chesnutt-and-joe-diffie-at-the-bologna-performing-arts-center-on-march-5\/","title":{"rendered":"An Acoustic Evening with Mark Chesnutt and Joe Diffie at the Bologna Performing Arts Center on March 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran \u201990s chart-toppers Mark Chesnutt and Joe Diffie are set to play their hits, and maybe even a few covers, in an intimate, acoustic style performance live in concert Thursday, March 5 at 7:30 PM at the Bologna Performing Arts Center (BPAC) at Delta State University. Tickets start at $40<!--more--> and are on sale at the BPAC Ticket Office, by phone 662-846-4626, or online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolognapac.com\">www.bolognapac.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chesnutt is one of country\u2019s true musical treasures. Critics have hailed him as a classic country singer of the first order and some of country music\u2019s most elite entertainers, from George Jones to George Strait, echo this sentiment. Chesnutt\u2019s stature is easily gauged; he has 14 No. 1 hits, 23 top 10 singles, four platinum albums, and five gold records. If you ask Chesnutt, he\u2019ll tell you: It\u2019s the music that has kept him around this long. In a world that sometimes confuses style with substance, Chesnutt possesses both: remaining true to himself as a traditional country artist while still keeping up with the ever-changing country landscape.<\/p>\n<p>With chart-toppers like \u201cPickup Man,\u201d \u201cThird Rock from the Sun,\u201d and \u201cJohn Deere Green,\u201d and 13 albums and more than 20 top 10 singles to his credit, Diffie has little to prove at this point in his career, yet he still has a fire in his belly to make good country music. A renowned songwriter in his own right, he has hits for artists like Tim McGraw, Conway Twitty, and Jo Dee Messina to his credit. Recently immortalized in the lyrics of Jason Aldean\u2019s hit song \u201c1994\u201d and Chris Young\u2019s \u201cRaised on Country,\u201d Diffie\u2019s legacy is cemented in the annals of country music history. Diffie is a Grammy and ACM award-winner. He is a member of the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to see Mark Chesnutt and Joe Diffie are on sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolognapac.com\">www.bolognapac.com<\/a> or at the BPAC Ticket Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran \u201990s chart-toppers Mark Chesnutt and Joe Diffie are set to play their hits, and maybe even a few covers, in an intimate, acoustic style performance live in concert Thursday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":85801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,418,1912],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bologna-performing-arts-center","category-community-3","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85800","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85802,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85800\/revisions\/85802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}