{"id":25641,"date":"2017-01-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/singing-along-to-usher-in-the-new-year\/"},"modified":"2017-01-04T16:09:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:09:12","slug":"singing-along-to-usher-in-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/singing-along-to-usher-in-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Singalong ushers in the new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Stewart, a Seattle-based children&rsquo;s singer-songwriter, performed for families during her Welcome to Happy Noon Year Singing Celebration at the Kent Library last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart engaged the audience in singalongs and storytelling throughout the free, one-hour program. Her program is designed to educate parents, teachers, librarians, grandparents and other caregivers about the unique role singing plays in early literacy.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, a professional musician since she was 15, toured nationally with a band doing lead guitar and vocals for 10 years. She left the nightclub days behind to sing with her own children, then began performing for others.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Along the way I became passionate about the connection between early literacy and music, and began presenting workshops for teachers and librarians nationally and internationally, where I&rsquo;ve developed a reputation for creating songs and materials that are simple and easy to use,&rdquo; Stewart explained.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/singwithourkids.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SingWithOurKids.com<\/a>. For program information at the library, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/kcls.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">kcls.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Stewart, a Seattle-based children&rsquo;s singer-songwriter, performed for families during her Welcome to Happy Noon Year Singing Celebration at the Kent Library last Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":25642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25641"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}