{"id":34523,"date":"2013-10-04T08:20:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T12:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=34523"},"modified":"2013-10-02T12:26:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T16:26:19","slug":"the-edge-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=34523","title":{"rendered":"The Edge of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, October 4, 2013, 7:30 PM<br \/>\nBAM Fisher<br \/>\n321 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn, NY<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The-Edge-of-Heaven.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[34523]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The-Edge-of-Heaven.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The-Edge-of-Heaven.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The-Edge-of-Heaven-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fiercely independent guitarist and songwriter Gary Lucas returns to BAM in The Edge of Heaven, a concert of Chinese pop tunes from the 1930s, arranged and performed with a blues inflection. These songs were made famous by two of the biggest Chinese music and film stars\u2014Bai Kwong and Chow Hsuan\u2014in an era when Shanghai was known as the \u201cParis of the East.\u201d The Edge of Heaven album (2010) reached number one on the World Music charts in Canada and was chosen as one of the Best Discs of the Year by the French newspaper Lib\u00e9ration. Featuring Lucas, his band Gods and Monsters, and two female vocalists\u2014Sally Kwok and Mo Hai Jing, the performance received standing ovations in 2011 at both the 64th Holland Festival in Amsterdam and the 28th Nijmegen Music Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bam.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, October 4, 2013, 7:30 PM BAM Fisher 321 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34527,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523\/revisions\/34527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}