{"id":42274,"date":"2019-09-16T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/gracias-christmas-cantata-comes-to-showare-on-sept-25\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:30:00","slug":"gracias-christmas-cantata-comes-to-showare-on-sept-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/gracias-christmas-cantata-comes-to-showare-on-sept-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Gracias Christmas Cantata comes to ShoWare on Sept. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Youth Fellowship (IYF) &#8211; in partnership with the Gracias Choir &#8211; presents a Christmas Cantata at the ShoWare Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sep. 25.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is part of a 29-city tour throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is free.<\/p>\n<p>IYF USA is a Christian global youth initiative and a registered 501(c) organization. IYF is dedicated to the spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth of young people around the world. IYF represents more than 200,000 students in 80 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Gracias Choir, official choir of IYF, has performed for heads-of-state and presidents and in 40 nations around the world. In 2015, the Gracias Choir was awarded First Prize at the acclaimed International Chamber Choir Competition in Marktoberdorf, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas Cantata is presented on three stages, with one message of hope.<\/p>\n<p>Act I &#8211; The Nativity presented as an epic opera<\/p>\n<p>Act II &#8211; A heart-warming musical expressing the love of a family<\/p>\n<p>Interlude &#8211; Special Cantata Message portraying the heart behind Christmas Act III &#8211; Handel&rsquo;s glorious oratorio, &ldquo;The Messiah&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To request free tickets, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/christmascantata.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ChristmasCantata.us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful stages, with one message of hope <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":42275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42274","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\/42274"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42274"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}