{"id":21723,"date":"2018-03-03T11:19:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T18:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=21723"},"modified":"2018-03-03T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T18:20:19","slug":"world-music-quartet-plays-billings-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2018\/03\/world-music-quartet-plays-billings-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"World-music quartet plays Billings on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21724\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-21724 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/VQ-Inside-Small-Standing-771x538.jpg\" alt=\"Quartet\" width=\"771\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/VQ-Inside-Small-Standing.jpg 771w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/VQ-Inside-Small-Standing-336x234.jpg 336w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/VQ-Inside-Small-Standing-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Valinor Quartet will be performing in Billings on Tuesday, March 6.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An award-winning quartet that plays a unique blend of pop, jazz and world music will return to the Mayflower Congregational Church, 2940 Poly Drive in Billings, this Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The show is a benefit for the\u00a0Billings Brain Injury Support Group and will feature the Valinor Quartet, a collaboration between a Grammy-winning accordionist Victor Prieto and the International String Trio \u2014 Slava Tolstoy on guitar, Rob Flax on violin and Greg Feingold on bass.<\/p>\n<p>The all-acoustic ensemble\u00a0encompasses the diverse cultural backgrounds of its members, hailing from Russia, Spain and the United States. The quartet&#8217;s riveting instrumental displays make use of a breathtaking range of styles \u2014 from classical music, the Beatles and Gypsy jazz to Klezmer, popular movie soundtracks and tango.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out one of their performances by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_PS75uH9QiM\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>General admission at the door is $20 for adults, $15 for seniors 65 and older and $10 for students. For reservations, call Ian Elliot at 656-2744.<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award-winning quartet that plays a unique blend of pop, jazz and world music will return to the Mayflower Congregational Church, 2940 Poly Drive in Billings, this Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":21724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6824,3817,6825],"class_list":["post-21723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-billings-brain-injury-support-group","tag-mayflower-congregational-church","tag-valinor-quartet","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21728,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723\/revisions\/21728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}