{"id":842,"date":"2016-08-02T06:22:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2016-08-04T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T14:05:36","slug":"wilton-merwin-meadows-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/02\/wilton-merwin-meadows-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilton Merwin Meadows Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-554 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hbros_wilton_8_7-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"hbros_wilton_8_7\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hbros_wilton_8_7-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hbros_wilton_8_7-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hbros_wilton_8_7-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hbros_wilton_8_7-750x1125.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Merwin Meadows Magic<br \/>\nA.J. Gundell<br \/>\nJuly 30, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Picture this.<\/p>\n<p>A suburban oasis:\u00a0 grassy carpet spread easily around the town\u2019s sandy swimming hole, shaded by majestic oaks and a lone magnolia, bordered by jungle gyms and barbeques\u2026 all at the foot of Lover\u2019s Lane in Wilton, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.\u00a0 Lover\u2019s Lane.<\/p>\n<p>For years at the turn of the millennium, in this little retreat from the nearby hubbub, the Wilton Parks and Recreation Department sponsored the Wilton MusicFest.\u00a0 Mixed in with the summertime sounds of kids on swing sets and cicadas at dusk were the sounds of world-class acoustic musicians such as\u2026. wait for it\u2026. Richie Havens, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Karla Bonoff, Jimmy Webb, Marshall Crenshaw, Jose Feliciano, Paul Winter, Richard Shindell, Melanie, Steve Forbert, Tom Chapin, Julie Gold, Christine Lavin, Aztec Two-Step, Rory Block\u2026 and, believe it or not, many more.<\/p>\n<p>I was proud to help the Parks Department bring some of that music to Merwin Meadows in those years.\u00a0 And I\u2019m proud to help bring it back this weekend, when the Helium Brothers will take that little big stage again.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you can join us.\u00a0 There\u2019s a little magic in Merwin Meadows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merwin Meadows Magic A.J. Gundell July 30, 2016 Picture this. A suburban oasis:\u00a0 grassy carpet spread easily around the town\u2019s sandy swimming hole, shaded by majestic oaks and a lone magnolia, bordered by jungle gyms and barbeques\u2026 all at the foot of Lover\u2019s Lane in Wilton, Connecticut. Seriously.\u00a0 Lover\u2019s Lane. For years at the turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concert-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heliumbrothers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}