{"id":651531,"date":"2013-04-09T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=c57f77f62fc20b1e76a93103e21338d1"},"modified":"2013-04-09T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T20:32:30","slug":"first-lady-michelle-obama-hosts-a-student-workshop-celebrating-memphis-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651531","title":{"rendered":"First Lady Michelle Obama Hosts a Student Workshop Celebrating “Memphis Soul”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tEd note: You can watch a livestream of "In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul" on whitehouse.gov\/live<\/a> tonight at 6:55 pm ET.
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\n First Lady Michelle Obama hosts an interactive student workshop event: \u201cSoulsville, USA: The History of Memphis Soul,\u201d in the State Dining Room of the White House, April 9, 2013. Joining the First Lady on stage, from left, are: Sam Moore, Mavis Staples, Justin Timberlake, Charlie Musselwhite and Ben Harper. <\/p>\n

(Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As First Lady Michelle Obama noted earlier today, "You never know what's going to happen at the White House<\/a>!"<\/p>\n

Mrs. Obama was talking to a group of students who had come from California, Tennessee, New York, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C to participate in an interactive workshop called “Soulsville, USA: The History of Memphis Soul.” And while her guests were excited to be in the State Dining Room for the event, the presence of Justin Timberlake on the panel increased their enthusiasm. <\/p>\n

Timberlake, Sam Moore, Mavis Staples, Charlie Musselwhite and Ben Harper are all participating in the "In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul" event later tonight, and the First Lady invited them to join the students for a conversation about this truly American art form, and the hard work involved in being a successful musician or artist. <\/p>\n

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Ed note: You can watch a livestream of "In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul" on whitehouse.gov\/live tonight at 6:55 pm ET.   First Lady Michelle Obama hosts an interactive student workshop event: \u201cSoulsville, USA: The History of Memphis Soul,\u201d in the State Dining Room of the White House, April 9, 2013. Joining the First […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}