{"id":123507,"date":"2022-10-06T11:25:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=123507"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:26:00","slug":"oxford-blues-festival-2022-spotlight-randy-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-blues-festival-2022-spotlight-randy-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Blues Festival 2022 Spotlight: Randy Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Randy Ferguson plays at 3:30 pm on Saturday, October 8<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordbluesfest.com\/tickets\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-OxfordBluesFest-GuideHeader-web-750.jpg?resize=640%2C191\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-OxfordBluesFest-GuideHeader-web-750.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-OxfordBluesFest-GuideHeader-web-750.jpg?resize=300%2C90&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Singer, songwriter, and entertainer <strong>Randy Ferguson<\/strong> returns to perform and serve as <strong>Blues Host<\/strong> of this year\u2019s <strong>Oxford Blues Festival<\/strong>. Randy grew up in West Tennessee between Memphis and <strong>Nashville<\/strong> in the 70s so it\u2019s only natural that his songs contain elements of blues, country, rock, gospel, and rockabilly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His song \u201cWalking Into Clarksdale\u201d typifies the day in the life of a blues man. Randy has honed his craft in Mississippi and Tennessee juke joints and honky tonks for over four decades, and has for the last several years served as Music Therapist for <strong>Specialty Hospice, LLC<\/strong>, regularly bringing the joy of the blues to the residents of Mississippi\u2019s <strong>Senior Care Facilities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p_H9085K-GU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p_H9085K-GU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DehXpZ0FRjY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Randy-Ferguson-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"361\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Randy-Ferguson-2.jpg?resize=361%2C537\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Randy-Ferguson-2.jpg?w=361&amp;ssl=1 361w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Randy-Ferguson-2.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Ferguson plays at 3:30 pm on Saturday, October 8 Singer, songwriter, and entertainer Randy Ferguson returns to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":123508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[5,4,3271,22823],"class_list":["post-123507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-localfestivals","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-blues-festival","tag-randy-ferguson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Randy-Ferguson-2.jpg?fit=361%2C537&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}