{"id":6182,"date":"2011-03-07T14:54:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T20:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:32:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:32:23","slug":"gay-mens-chorus-tix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2011\/03\/07\/gay-mens-chorus-tix\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickets on sale for Bemidji State performance of Twin Cities Gay Men\u2019s Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn. (March 7, 2011)<\/strong> &mdash; For the first time, the famed Twin Cities Gay Men&rsquo;s Chorus will be performing in Bemidji. Tickets are on sale now for &ldquo;Ol&eacute;, Ol&eacute;, Ol&eacute;, The Rhythm is Gonna Getcha,&rdquo; to be held Saturday, March 19, in the Thompson Recital Hall of Bemidji State University&rsquo;s Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex.<\/p>\n<p>The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the Hobson Memorial Union on campus for $10; children and students with valid identification cards can purchase tickets for $5. Additionally, a limited number of student scholarship tickets are available; interested students should contact the Union information desk for more information.<\/p>\n<p>The Twin Cities Gay Men&rsquo;s Chorus has been providing award winning performances since 1981. The fourth largest gay men&rsquo;s chorus in the country, with between 80 and 100 performing artists, the chorus is an all-volunteer community organization based in Minneapolis. The chorus has a primary focus on &ldquo;pursuit in music excellence,&rdquo; but also serves to transform and educate its audiences and celebrate diversity.<\/p>\n<p>The chorus&rsquo; appearaance is sponsored by the Twin Cities Gay Men&rsquo;s Chorus Outreach Program, and hosted by the Bemidji-area Hospitality Initiative of Servant Hearts and BSU-Phoenix Gay\/Straight Student Organization. The concert is made possible by a grant from the Region 2 Arts Council and donations from PFLAG-Park Rapids and Bemidji State University&rsquo;s Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/afournier\">Angela Fournier<\/a>, assistant professor of psychology and faculty advisor for the BSU-Phoenix Gay\/Straight Student Organization, at (218) 755-2530.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. (March 7, 2011) &mdash; For the first time, the famed Twin Cities Gay Men&rsquo;s Chorus will be performing in Bemidji. Tickets are on sale now for &ldquo;Ol&eacute;, Ol&eacute;, Ol&eacute;, The Rhythm is Gonna Getcha,&rdquo; to be held Saturday, March 19, in the Thompson Recital Hall of Bemidji State University&rsquo;s Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43948,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions\/43948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}