{"id":8919,"date":"2018-08-10T16:44:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8919"},"modified":"2018-08-10T16:44:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T16:44:28","slug":"whipple-memorial-library-gets-talented-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8919","title":{"rendered":"Whipple Memorial Library Gets Talented Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8923\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8923\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8923\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1157.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1157-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1157-405x381.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conde Serda, left, and Ramon De Leon, instructing a child about playing the accordion. Courtesy photo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Summer activities are nothing new at the Whipple Memorial Library in Los Fresnos.<\/p>\n<p>But just recently, a group of talented musicians stopped by the learning center and mingled with some of the children who were there during a summer day.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, Conde Serda, brought in an accordion and got some of the children involved with the musical instrument that is a vital component of conjunto music.<\/p>\n<p>Rogelio Nu\u00f1ez, director of the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center, said they wanted to give children the opportunity to learn about a musical genre born in this part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, he continued, is that Los Fresnos will soon host the first Conjunto Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only three months away from now,\u201d Nu\u00f1ez said, referring to the three-day event to be held this Oct. 19-21. \u201cIt will be here before we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Close to 20 conjunto bands are scheduled to play during the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Among them are: La Naturaleza, Los Layton, HACHE 3, Da Krazy Pimps, Bernando y sus Compadres, Boni Mauricio, Los Latinos, Conjunto Aztlan, Epi Martinez &amp; Friends, Juan Lugo y su Conjunto and Los Texamaniacs with Flaco Jimenez, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The festival, now it its 25th year, relocated to Los Fresnos from San Benito because of logistic and economic reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Summer activities are nothing new at the Whipple Memorial Library in Los Fresnos. But just recently, a group of talented musicians stopped by the learning center and mingled with some of the children who were there during a summer day. One of them, Conde Serda, brought in an accordion and got some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8925,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions\/8925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}