{"id":2187206,"date":"2025-12-04T20:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2187206"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:10:39","slug":"carbondale-city-leaders-introduce-live-music-events-before-city-council-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/carbondale-city-leaders-introduce-live-music-events-before-city-council-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbondale city leaders introduce live music events before city council meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) &#8211; The city of Carbondale announced a new live music event that will take place before the city council meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the city, Civic Sessions will be a brief, \u201cunplugged\u201d or acoustic performance by Carbondale musicians in the lobby of city hall starting at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI introduced Civic Sessions as a way to open City Council meetings with the sound of Carbondale, SIUC, and our region\u2019s renowned and deeply rooted music culture,\u201d said city council member Dawn Roberts. \u201cThe series is a way to bring residents, students, and neighbors together with their City government to celebrate our talented musicians and foster a shared sense of connection and pride in our community\u2014one song at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She said she was inspired by similar offerings in other cities with a music scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The inaugural performance will be on Tuesday, December 9. It\u2019ll feature SIU School of Music faculty, William Cernota on the cello and SIU sophomore Vincent Jones on Contrabass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the city, they are both members of Versa\u2019tile Faculty Student Chamber Music Ensemble, a new ensemble offering a range of free performances for the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\"><i>Copyright 2025 KFVS. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.kfvs12.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) &#8211; The city of Carbondale announced a new live music event that will take place before the city council meetings. According to the city, Civic Sessions will be a brief, \u201cunplugged\u201d or acoustic performance by Carbondale musicians in the lobby of city hall starting at 5:30 p.m. \u201cI introduced Civic Sessions as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[357221,412016,422017,42368,422018,22035,305388,22477,21738,422020,422019],"class_list":["post-2187206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-acoustic-music","tag-carbondale","tag-carbondale-city-council","tag-chamber-music","tag-civic-sessions","tag-community","tag-illinois","tag-live-music","tag-news","tag-siu","tag-siuc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187207,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187206\/revisions\/2187207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}