{"id":619950,"date":"2017-05-24T12:10:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=619950"},"modified":"2017-05-25T12:10:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T17:10:03","slug":"big-pines-blues-festival-announces-youth-contest-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=619950","title":{"rendered":"Big Pines Blues Festival Announces Youth Contest Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Big_Pines_Blues_Logo_Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Big_Pines_Blues_Logo_Small-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-619952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Big_Pines_Blues_Logo_Small-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Big_Pines_Blues_Logo_Small-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Big_Pines_Blues_Logo_Small.png 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Longview&#8217;s Big Pines Blues Festival has announced the names of 15 finalists for the festival&#8217;s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Junior Showcase\u00e2\u20ac\u009d competition. The young guitar slingers will face off in head-to-head competition to determine the winners in two age groups on Saturday morning, June 3, on the Maude Cobb Rodeo Arena stage. Contestants in Grades 6 through 8, along with their home towns, are Ryan Groom, Kemp; Cody Lattis, Murchison; Harleigh Lodato, Athens; Ben Smiley, Larue; Elijah Thompson, Marshall; and Jackson Zemler, Lewisville. Grade 9-12 hopefuls are Will Beeman, Nashville, Tenn.; Kurtis Bell, Longview; Brody Blanton, Henderson; Derian Hadley, Canton; Ethan Kuntz, Murfreesboro, Ark.; Mathias Lattin, Houston; Liam McCabe, Grapevine; Noah McCray, Mount Vernon; and Grant Mcinnis, Bullard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Longview&#8217;s Big Pines Blues Festival has announced the names of 15 finalists for the festival&#8217;s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Junior Showcase\u00e2\u20ac\u009d competition. The young guitar slingers will face off in head-to-head competition to determine the winners in two age groups on Saturday morning, June 3, on the Maude Cobb Rodeo Arena stage. Contestants in Grades 6 through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=619950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Pines Blues Festival Announces Youth Contest Finalists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":619952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 11:16:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619964,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619950\/revisions\/619964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/619952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}