{"id":2054,"date":"2014-08-28T12:46:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2014-08-28T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:46:52","slug":"second-half-lunchtime-live-concert-series-features-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/second-half-lunchtime-live-concert-series-features-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Half of Lunchtime Live Concert Series Features Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to split this year\u2019s <em>Lunchtime Live <\/em>concert series into two sessions in order to avoid the hottest part of the summer seems to have been a fortuitous one. The last few months have seen record high temperatures. Now that the weather is cooling off a bit, the series will once again fill Downtown Yakima\u2019s Performance Park with a wide variety of music for five consecutive Fridays beginning on September 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>During its inaugural run in 2013, the series featured 13 performances from June through August. This year <em>Lunchtime Live <\/em>was split into a seven-week run from early May through mid-June and a five-week session from early September through mid-October.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Solarity Credit Union and Stewart Subaru, the second session of the 2014<em> Lunchtime Live<\/em> series will start on September 5<sup>th<\/sup> with <em>Gideon\u2019s Daughter<\/em>, a three-piece Americana band that performs throughout the Northwest. <em>Bradford Loomis<\/em> will bring his folk sound, which is popular throughout our region, to the <em>Lunchtime Live <\/em>stage on September 12<sup>th<\/sup> and will be followed on September 19<sup>th<\/sup> by <em>Navid &amp; Friends<\/em>, an acoustic pop group led by Yakima favorite Navid Elliot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hot Barbecue<\/em> will add its roots country vibe to the <em>Lunchtime Live<\/em> series on September 26<sup>th<\/sup>. The October 3<sup>rd<\/sup> show will feature Chelan native <em>Olivia de la Cruz <\/em>and her lyrical, soulful sound. The 2014 <em>Lunchtime Live <\/em>series will close on October 10<sup>th<\/sup> with the Portland-based indie\/folk group <em>Merilous<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>All of the <em>Lunchtime Live<\/em> shows take place at Performance Park, located on the corner of 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Street and S Sgt. Pendleton Way, and run from 11:45 am to 1:15 pm.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the <em>Lunchtime Live<\/em> concert series and the many other events taking place throughout the year in Downtown Yakima, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownyakima.com\">www.downtownyakima.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Lunctime-Live-Lineup-News-Release.pdf\">Lunctime Live Lineup &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to split this year\u2019s Lunchtime Live concert series into two sessions in order to avoid the hottest part of the summer seems to have been a fortuitous one. The last few months have seen record high temperatures. Now that the weather is cooling off a bit, the series will once again fill Downtown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}