{"id":12833,"date":"2019-11-18T19:58:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T23:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12833"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T23:58:30","slug":"lydia-persaud-to-perform-all-ages-show-at-wjcc-on-nov-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12833","title":{"rendered":"Lydia Persaud to perform all-ages show at WJCC on Nov. 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WINDSOR JUNCTION: <\/strong>The Windsor Junction Community Centre (WJCC) is hosting its first indoor winter all-ages concert on Nov. 24, beginning at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lydia\n Persaud was well received at Stan Rogers Folk Festival and now she\u2019s \nplaying in the community next to Fall River. Doors open at 6 p.m., and \nthere is limited seating so get your tickets now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fixture of \nToronto\u2019s music community and a sought-after collaborator, Persaud \nstands alone with her debut album \u201cLet Me Show You.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exposed to \nmusic from a very young age, Lydia\u2019s early influences sprang from \nsinging in church. It wasn\u2019t until Lydia stumbled across a cassette that\n she was exposed to soul music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy first introduction to soul \nmusic was through one of my early tapes, VH1 Divas Live,\u201d she said in a \nbackgrounder about her. \u201cIt was a live performance taping with Mariah \nCarey, Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Carole King and \nGloria Estefan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vocal skill of these icons drew Lydia in to explore the soul genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSoul\n music has always affected me the most, a soulful conviction on matters \nof the heart,\u201d said Lydia. \u201cVoicing struggle or sharing joy and \ncelebration has always been my favourite method of expression.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lydia\n attended the rigorous jazz program at Humber School of Music, where she\n won the Oscar Peterson Jazz Award and connected with fellow members of \nthe folk trio The O\u2019Pears, whom she has been collaborating with for the \npast seven years. She has supported such icons as Gordon Lightfoot, \nDavid Crosby, and Lee Fields, as well as opened for Serena Ryder, Sarah \nHarmer, and Joey Landreth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchase tickets for the WJCC concert \nonline at Sidedooraccess.com by searching for the show for $20 each; \nkids under 12 receive free admission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINDSOR JUNCTION: The Windsor Junction Community Centre (WJCC) is hosting its first indoor winter all-ages concert on Nov. 24, beginning at 7 p.m. Lydia Persaud was well received at Stan Rogers Folk Festival and now she\u2019s playing in the community next to Fall River. Doors open at 6 p.m., and there is limited seating so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,12],"tags":[891,2,550,178],"class_list":["post-12833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-featured","tag-all-ages-concert","tag-fall-river","tag-windsor-junction-community-centre","tag-wjcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}