{"id":55571,"date":"2012-08-08T08:04:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=55571"},"modified":"2018-10-03T14:20:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T18:20:42","slug":"midsum12-mangogrove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/08\/08\/midsum12-mangogrove\/","title":{"rendered":"Mango Grove Steel Band closes Midsummer Lakeside Concert series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/Midsum12-Mango.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/Midsum12-Mango.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/Midsum12-Mango.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/Midsum12-Mango-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe 2012 Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series at Bates College concludes with the Mango Grove Steel Band at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9, in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater by the college\u2019s Lake Andrews.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Sponsored by the Bingham Betterment Fund, the Garcelon Society and Bates\u2019 Information and Library Services division, these family concerts are open to the public at no cost. Listeners are encouraged to bring a picnic and lawn chairs or blankets.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The rain site is the College Chapel, 275 College St. For more information, please call 207-786-6400.<\/p>\n<p>Praised as \u201cNew Hampshire\u2019s best steel band\u201d in the July 2005 issue of New Hampshire Magazine, Mango Grove is known for its uplifting Caribbean groove. The ensemble consists of a full range of steel pans \u2014 lead, alto, guitar and bass \u2014 supported by a conventional drum kit and other traditional percussion instruments.<\/p>\n<p>The result, wrote The Conway Daily Sun, is a pastiche of \u201crich dulcet tones over a complexity of soft rhythms . . . [set to] a beautiful and tightly arranged selection of traditional and popular tunes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mango Grove Steel Band, praised as \u201cNew Hampshire\u2019s best,\u201d closes the Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series on Aug. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":55574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,133,11009],"tags":[9640,5956,11041],"class_list":["post-55571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-creativity","category-the-college","tag-mango-grove-steel-band","tag-midsummer-lakeside-concert-series","tag-summer-at-bates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55571"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119097,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55571\/revisions\/119097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}