{"id":3070,"date":"2016-10-01T04:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T04:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2016-12-03T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T08:52:21","slug":"james-ruff-october-1-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=3070","title":{"rendered":"James Ruff  &#8211;  October 1, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Ruff \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0Skinner Hall, Vassar College \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0October 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Ruff&#8217;s original (and still principle) musical career focus has been voice, and I&#8217;m not sure I would have attended if that was the extent of this solo concert. \u00a0But he also performs on early Gaelic wire harp (you know, the one on the Guinness logo), and is a scholar of the instrument&#8217;s history and repertoire. \u00a0So the combination was sufficiently beguiling, and proved worthy. \u00a0The singing was in old Gaelic, and Ruff dives deep into ancient authenticity here as well, bringing us back hundreds of years with his expressive tenor voice. \u00a0Unfortunately, a harp string broke, but luckily it was on the final tune.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3073\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/James-Ruff-v2-logo-jpg-for-web.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3073\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3073\" title=\"James-Ruff-v2-logo-jpg-for-web\" src=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/James-Ruff-v2-logo-jpg-for-web-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/James-Ruff-v2-logo-jpg-for-web-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/James-Ruff-v2-logo-jpg-for-web.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Ruff<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Ruff \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0Skinner Hall, Vassar College \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0October 1, 2016 Ruff&#8217;s original (and still principle) musical career focus has been voice, and I&#8217;m not sure I would have attended if that was the extent of this solo concert. \u00a0But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=3070\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1301,1300,411,220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}