{"id":12949,"date":"2013-07-15T03:53:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T10:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12949"},"modified":"2013-07-15T04:03:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T11:03:22","slug":"long-beach-gospel-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/long-beach-gospel-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Gospel Fest Excites Over 25,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/gosfest.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos include Gospel Fest performers and Pastor Wayne Chaney Jr., with his talented author &amp; recording artist wife, Myesha (bottom row &#8211; 2nd from right)<\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach, Ca\u2014People were dancing, people were singing, people were praying, people were thrilled to be part of the recent 4th Annual Long Beach Gospel Fest, which featured some of the finest musicians and singers in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>More than 25,000 came to hear multiple Grammy Award-winning Christian singer Israel Houghton, whose popular cross-cultural music fuses jazz, rock and gospel. They came to see the legendary Dorinda Clark-Cole, also a multiple Grammy Award-winner. They came to cheer the award-winning, cutting-edge, Greater Los Angeles Cathedral Choir. But the happy multi-ethnic crowd, dressed in a variety of bright colors, also loved the amazing talent of several other entertainers, whose enthusiasm burst across Marina Green Park&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-gospel-fest.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos include Gospel Fest performers and Pastor Wayne Chaney Jr., with his talented author &amp; recording artist wife, Myesha (bottom row &#8211; 2nd from right) By C. MacDonald Long Beach, Ca\u2014People were dancing, people were singing, people were praying, people were thrilled to be part of the recent 4th Annual Long Beach Gospel Fest, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}