{"id":94328,"date":"2022-05-10T14:34:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=94328"},"modified":"2022-05-10T14:34:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:34:50","slug":"michael-keith-revives-live-music-in-mansons-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/michael-keith-revives-live-music-in-mansons-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Keith revives live music in Mansons Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cortes Island is home to many musicians, but, during the pandemic, live music events were almost entirely non-existent due to public health orders. With the orders finally lifted, local artists are eager to return to the stage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michael Keith, originally from Toronto, has made a career from his passion as a singer, guitarist and composer. Keith is bravely reviving the live music scene on Cortes Island, appearing on stage twice in April 2022. Keith plays several different instruments, but his most unique is a cigar-box guitar made in nearby Campbell River by Tracy Tomlinson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94332\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_1851.jpeg\" data-dt-img-description=\"Michael Keith's blues music is influenced by instruments like this veena pictured. Photo by Iris Gildea\" data-large_image_width=\"640\" data-large_image_height=\"346\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94332\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_1851.jpeg\" alt=\"Man sits on picnic blanket while playing a large south indian musical instrument.\" width=\"640\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_1851.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_1851-500x270.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_1851-320x173.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Keith's blues music is influenced by instruments like this veena pictured. Photo by Iris Gildea.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He is scheduled to perform on July 4, at the Fireside Patio at the Gorge Marina, which is a free event open to the public. To find out about more free, live music events at the Gorge Harbour Marina visit <a href=\"http:\/\/gorgeharbour.com\/entertainment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gorgeharbour.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the interview with Michael Keith below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cortes Island is home to many musicians, but, during the pandemic, live music events were almost entirely non-existent due to public health orders. With the orders finally lifted, local artists are eager to return to the stage. Michael Keith, originally from Toronto, has made a career from his passion as a singer, guitarist and composer.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":94337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[14433,14432,10104,4797,14430,14431],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94328"}],"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=94328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94620,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94328\/revisions\/94620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94328"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=94328"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=94328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}