{"id":338,"date":"2004-03-28T23:48:11-05:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T07:48:11+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=338"},"modified":"2004-03-28T23:48:11-05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T07:48:11+00:00","slug":"sirens-and-hal-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2004\/03\/28\/sirens-and-hal-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirens and Hal:&nbsp;Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Today&#8217;s musical outing was to see roots\/blues player <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manitobahal.com\/\">Manitoba Hal<\/a> at London&#8217;s premier folk club, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theuglymugcafe.com\/\">The Ugly Mug Caf&eacute;<\/a>.  It was one of the first really nice days we&#8217;ve had this year&#8211;16 degrees and sunny&#8211;and unfortunately that led to a poor turnout, but Hal put on a fantastic couple of sets and stuck around for a while afterwards to talk music (both as art and business) with local musicians Allison Brown and James Cummins (and local music nobody yours truly).<\/p>\n\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t make it to tonight&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonmusicawards.com\/\">London Music Awards<\/a> presentation but I just got the news that, for the second year in a row, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sirens3.com\/\">Sirens<\/a> won!<\/strong>  I sometimes get discouraged with London audiences who stay away in droves from deserving acts, but for as long as I&#8217;ve known Amber, Donna and Jo-Ann the locals have been incredibly supportive of the group.  Congratulations Sirens (and the other LMA winners), and good on you London!<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s musical outing was to see roots\/blues player Manitoba Hal at London&#8217;s premier folk club, The Ugly Mug Caf&eacute;. It was one of the first really nice days we&#8217;ve had this year&#8211;16 degrees and sunny&#8211;and unfortunately that led to a poor turnout, but Hal put on a fantastic couple of sets and stuck around for&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}