{"id":21291,"date":"2015-10-04T02:08:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T09:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21291"},"modified":"2015-10-04T02:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T09:08:57","slug":"free-concert-solves-yanni-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/free-concert-solves-yanni-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Concert Solves Yanni Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/ladredy.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 22 years since Yanni with his long, flowing hair performed &#8220;Live at the Acropolis&#8221; in Athens, Greece. A PBS special taping of that concert not only raised $13 million for public broadcasting, but it also created a buzz when &#8220;The Lady in Red&#8221; with the lightning-fast violin performed. What ever happened to her? \u00a0Karen Briggs played an instrumental part in the success of the show\u00a0and\u00a0continued to work and tour with Yanni for 13 years more.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u00a0I\u00a0attended the free\u00a0Carson Jazz Festival, hoping to see &amp; hear well known saxophonist Eric Marienthal. Beyond my wildest wishes he\u00a0was performing when\u00a0I arrived and\u00a0there was no crowd near the stage so\u00a0I stood\u00a0a few feet\u00a0away as\u00a0the Grammy winner played many popular hits. During his final set a &#8220;Lady in Pink&#8221; with a mean violin accompanied him. Her talent was beyond compare! After doing some research I learned that she was Karen Briggs, part of an all female band, Jazz in Pink.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you City of Carson, for\u00a0putting on such a fantastic, free event\u00a0and\u00a0for helping me discover\u00a0what ever happened to The Lady in Red! Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/october-music.html\">more music concerts in October&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 22 years since Yanni with his long, flowing hair performed &#8220;Live at the Acropolis&#8221; in Athens, Greece. A PBS special taping of that concert not only raised $13 million for public broadcasting, but it also created a buzz when &#8220;The Lady in Red&#8221; with the lightning-fast violin performed. What ever happened to her? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/21291"}],"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=21291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}