{"id":18682,"date":"2016-07-01T09:10:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T13:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=18682"},"modified":"2016-07-01T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:23:44","slug":"25th-annual-great-blue-heron-music-festival-now-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/25th-annual-great-blue-heron-music-festival-now-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"25th Annual Great Blue Heron Music Festival Now Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heron.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18683\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/25th-annual-great-blue-heron-music-festival-now-underway\/heron\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heron.jpg?fit=960%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Heron\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heron.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heron.jpg?fit=960%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-18683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heron.jpg?resize=333%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Heron\" width=\"333\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heron.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heron.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heron.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heron.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>SHERMAN, NY &#8211; Thousands of people will be in Sherman this weekend to celebrate another year of music and friendship with the 2016 <strong>Great Blue Heron Music Festival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/listen-arts-on-fire-julie-rockcastle-and-david-tidquist-talk-great-blue-heron\/\"><strong>LISTEN TO ARTS FIRE BLUE HERON INTERVIEW<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gates for the Heron open Friday morning, July 1 at 9 a.m. at the Blue Heron grounds at 2361 Waits Corners Road in Sherman.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s lineup includes dozens of local, regional and national acts including headliners <strong>Donna the Buffalo<\/strong> \u2013 who\u2019ve performed at every single Heron since the first one took place in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Other acts include New Riders of the Purple Sage, Jim Lauderdale, The Horse Flies, The Town Pants; Big Mean Sound Machine, Smackdab, Mosaic Foundation, The Bogarts, Ken Hardley and the Moose Club and many others.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <strong>Rolling Hills Radio<\/strong> \u2013 which is heard every Friday on WRFA \u2013 will record a special show at the Heron\u2019s Dance Tent featuring the band <strong>Stewed Mulligan<\/strong>. The show, hosted by <strong>Ken Hardley<\/strong>, will be recorded Saturday morning and will be broadcast here on WRFA next Friday, July 8 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the 25<sup>th<\/sup> annual Heron, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/GreatBlueHeron.com\">GreatBlueHeron.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHERMAN, NY &#8211; Thousands of people will be in Sherman this weekend to celebrate another year of music and friendship with the 2016 Great Blue Heron Music Festival. LISTEN TO ARTS FIRE BLUE HERON INTERVIEW Gates for the Heron open Friday morning, July 1 at 9 a.m. at the Blue Heron grounds at 2361 Waits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":18683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"25th Annual Great Blue Heron Music Festival Now Underway","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5428,971,1345,1941,4064,6682],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heron.jpg?fit=960%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-4Rk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14508,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/happy-heron-24th-annual-great-blue-heron-music-festival-begins-friday-july-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":18682,"position":0},"title":"Happy Heron! 24th Annual Great Blue Heron Music Festival Begins Friday, July 3","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"July 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"SHERMAN, NY - The Great Blue Heron Music Festival in Sherman will get underway on Friday with thousands of music fans expected to be on hand. 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