{"id":3925,"date":"2015-07-31T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/31\/furman-singers-reunion-no-ordinary-gathering\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:48:32","slug":"furman-singers-reunion-no-ordinary-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-singers-reunion-no-ordinary-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Singers Reunion, no ordinary gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Furman-Singers-soloist-e1438361925106.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18578 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newspress.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Furman-Singers-soloist-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Furman Singers, soloist\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/204;\" \/><\/a>When the Furman Singers convene for their 19<sup>th<\/sup> Biennial Reunion, Singers director Hugh Floyd says, \u201cThe singing is amazing, the fellowship is genuine and full of fun, and we all go away with a great booster-shot of joy and satisfaction when we depart on Sunday afternoon.\u201d An event that spans multiple generations and draws alumni from around the globe, the reunion features a culminating concert 10:30 a.m., Sunday, Aug. 9, at First Baptist Church in Greenville. With more than 200 voices filling the sanctuary with favorites like \u201cThe Battle Hymn of the Republic,\u201d the concert promises to be remarkable. Paul Hyde offers more details about the Singers\u2019 tradition in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/entertainment\/arts\/paul-hyde\/2015\/07\/28\/furman-singers-concert-brings-generations-together\/30808413\/\">Greenville News<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Furman Singers convene for their 19th Biennial Reunion, Singers director Hugh Floyd says, \u201cThe singing is amazing, the fellowship is genuine and full of fun, and we all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}