{"id":1863,"date":"2025-09-02T21:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:28:41","slug":"practice-begins-for-38th-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/practice-begins-for-38th-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice Begins for 38th Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Under the Direction of Butch Mestemacher and Mary Liszewski,  practices for the Granite City Concert Band will be starting on Thursday, September 4, 7pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are looking for anyone who would like to play in a concert band\u2026 all ages and talent.  Dust off your instruments and reconnect with your musical skills!  We perform 6 concerts throughout September to May in the Metro East area.  You can play the whole year, or you can do a six week practice and play a concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rehearsals are on Thursday nights at St. John\u2019s United Church of Christ: 2901 Nameoki Rd, Granite City, IL.  Bring your own instrument and music stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are in great need of Trombonists and an oboist!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first concert is October 18 at SWIC in Granite City: 4950 Maryville RD at 7pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Direction of Butch Mestemacher and Mary Liszewski, practices for the Granite City Concert Band will be starting on Thursday, September 4, 7pm. We are looking for anyone who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graniteband.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}