{"id":3453,"date":"2012-07-06T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T16:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2012-09-05T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:55:28","slug":"songs-and-stories-117-rita-hosking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-117-rita-hosking\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #117: Rita Hosking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3454\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3453-1\" 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_stories117.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories117.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories117.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_stories117.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=3453-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories117.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories117.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories117.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to listen to episode #117<\/strong><\/a> (time = 34:52, size = 50.3 mb)<\/p>\n<p>Songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritahosking.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rita Hosking<\/a> was raised in a small, northern California town &#8211; &#8220;Redding was considered the big city&#8221; &#8211; and calls Davis home these days. Her particular blend of foothills and folk have won her major awards. Rita was a finalist in the 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/2009\/05\/13\/2009-telluride-troubadour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Telluride Music Festival Troubadour Contest<\/a>, and she won the 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sistersfolkfestival.org\/sff.php?index=0&#038;call=davecarter\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Contest<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sistersfolkfestival.org\/sff.php\" target=\"_blank\">Sisters Folk Festival<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/ritahosking\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Burn&#8221; <\/a>is her latest record &#8211; her fourth studio effort &#8211; and it&#8217;s also brought her some well-earned attention. It won Best Country Album Vox Pop in the 2010 Independent Music Awards. It placed in the top 10 &#8220;Young Female Artist releases for 2011&#8221; by No Depression magazine. And it was listed as a &#8220;Hidden Gem of 2011&#8221; by the UK&#8217;s Observer.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritahosking.com\/fr_mediatools.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/RitaHoskingCousinJackByJulieHaney2-300x275.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"RitaHoskingCousinJackByJulieHaney2\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/RitaHoskingCousinJackByJulieHaney2-300x275.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/RitaHoskingCousinJackByJulieHaney2-1024x941.gif 1024w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/RitaHoskingCousinJackByJulieHaney2.gif 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Rita Hosking and her band Cousin Jack<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This summer Rita&#8217;s hitting the major California festivals. Last weekend she appear (twice) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katewolf.com\/festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Wolf Memorial Festival<\/a>. She&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strawberrymusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fall Strawberry<\/a> over Labor Day Weekend. And on September 15th, she takes to the main stage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/americanrivermusic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American River Music Festival<\/a>. (Other performers at this year&#8217;s American River Music Festival include Tom Russell, Ray Bonneville with Nina Gerber, and Roy Rogers.)<\/p>\n<p>Rita and I recently talked at a very cool little park in Santa Cruz when she was down this way doing a couple of house concerts. We discussed what led her to producer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richbrotherton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rich Brotherton<\/a> &#8211; he&#8217;s produced her last two records &#8211; and despite her busy festival season, and how she&#8217;s carving out time to both enjoy summer with her kids and to finish songs for her next record. <\/p>\n<p>Note: I simply cannot drop &#8220;Redding&#8221; into a post without mentioning the late, great &#8211; and man do we miss him &#8211; Chuck McCabe. Here&#8217;s a link to his ode to that northern town, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1iXiFyfY3W8\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I&#8217;d Rather Be in Redding&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<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-117-rita-hosking%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 here to listen to episode #117 (time = 34:52, size = 50.3 mb) Songwriter Rita Hosking was raised in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","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=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/3624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}