{"id":24584,"date":"2017-09-22T16:11:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T23:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24584"},"modified":"2017-09-22T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T23:11:40","slug":"jazzy-oktoberfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/jazzy-oktoberfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Musician Delivers New Oktoberfest Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/orindajz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: <strong>Carol Alban, producer of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oktoberfest-orinda.html\">Orinda Jazz Festival Oktoberfest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ORINDA, CALIF. &#8211;A jazz festival Oktoberfest?&#8211; So what&#8217;s that all about? We asked Carol Alban, the creator\/producer of this new event and she answered like this: &#8220;There will be lots of jazz and also some German music (with me playing accordion!) and of course there will be beer and men wearing lederhosen and women wearing dirndls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The themed jazz festival, now in its 7th year, features Grammy winner Mads Tolling, a must-see violinist who performs everything from 60s hits to classics and jazz. Also in the line up is Grammy nominee vocalist, Clif Payne, plus an all-star cast Alban selected for this special event.<\/p>\n<p>Alban, an accomplished multi-instrumentalist (flute, piano, guitar, ukulele), vocalist and composer, has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and has been featured with the Bay Area Chamber Symphony. She is founder of the Alban Music School.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-oktoberfest.html\">Here are more Oktoberfests in California<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: Carol Alban, producer of\u00a0Orinda Jazz Festival Oktoberfest ORINDA, CALIF. &#8211;A jazz festival Oktoberfest?&#8211; So what&#8217;s that all about? We asked Carol Alban, the creator\/producer of this new event and she answered like this: &#8220;There will be lots of jazz and also some German music (with me playing accordion!) and of course there will be [&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\/24584"}],"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=24584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}