{"id":182,"date":"2008-02-09T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T16:09:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-04T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T22:57:21","slug":"songs_and_stories_24_rick_di_di_and_aire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_24_rick_di_di_and_aire\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #24: Rick Di Dia and Aireene Espiritu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5374\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-182-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories24.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories24.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories24.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories24.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=182-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories24.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories24.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories24.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #24<\/a> (time = 48.9, size = 56.1 mb)<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday 2\/23, I&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/concertsinyourhome.com\/house_concert_hosts\/CA.html#AcousticBarn\" target=\"_blank\">The Acoustic Barn<\/a> in Newcastle, CA opening for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tentonfeather.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Di Dia and Aireene Espiritu<\/a>. Rick and Aireene play a mix of original folk, blues, bluegrass, and &#8220;swampy jams&#8221;, backed up by Rick on lap-steel guitar and Airene on ukelele. Not the least bit coincidentally, Rick and Aireene are the guests on this episode of &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/rickaireene_01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon, we discussed the balancing act between the &#8220;art&#8221; and &#8220;business&#8221; sides of music (along with a day job), talked about the unique community aspect between listeners, players, and supporters of Americana\/folk music, and traded stories about our own musical influences &#8211; Rick even started interviewing *me* at one point, which was also a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contest Announcement:<\/strong> Want to win an autographed CD and DVD (recorded at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreight.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freight and Salvage<\/a>) from Rick and Aireene? If you&#8217;re not on my mailing list &#8211; and you&#8217;d like to be &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\">sign up on my Contact page<\/a> and mention &#8220;Songs and Stories #24&#8221;. I&#8217;ll randomly draw a name at the end of the month and notify the lucky winner.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D216646993\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/subscribe-with-itunes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs_and_stories_24_rick_di_di_and_aire%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to hear &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #24 (time = 48.9, size = 56.1 mb) On Saturday 2\/23, I&#8217;ll be at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}