{"id":105882,"date":"2022-07-14T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=105882"},"modified":"2022-07-14T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T23:38:08","slug":"cortes-island-revives-tradition-of-open-mic-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/cortes-island-revives-tradition-of-open-mic-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortes Island revives tradition of open mic sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-pandemic, monthly open mic nights were a tradition on rural Cortes Island and now, the events are being revived by organizers and performers Catriona Vega and Sean Coyote.<\/p>\n<p>The re-launch takes place <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cortesisland.com\/cgi-bin\/tideline\/show_calendar.cgi?TOPIC=0&amp;WEEK=1&amp;VIEW=3&amp;DAYA=2022-07-01&amp;DAYZ=2022-07-31&amp;EXPORT=0&amp;S=1&amp;POP=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday, July 20 at 7 p.m. in the Pioneer Room at Mansons Hall<\/a>. Vega says several dates are scheduled for open mics over the summer, and whether or not they continue depends on how popular the events are over these months.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mansonshall.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Cortes Community Association,<\/a> (SCCA) is providing space in Mansons Landing Community Hall for the open mic nights.<\/p>\n<p>Vega says they're a great opportunity for people new to performing to get their feet wet in front of a supportive audience. She adds that the everyone is welcome at the all-age events and performances by musicians, story tellers and poets are encouraged.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CKTZ interviews Vega and Coyote below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-pandemic, monthly open mic nights were a tradition on rural Cortes Island and now, the events are being revived by organizers and performers Catriona Vega and Sean Coyote. The re-launch takes place Wednesday, July 20 at 7 p.m. in the Pioneer Room at Mansons Hall. Vega says several dates are scheduled for open mics over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":105893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[314,1890,16756,10192,3248,12709],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105920,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105882\/revisions\/105920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105882"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=105882"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=105882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}