{"id":24332,"date":"2015-04-22T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=24332"},"modified":"2015-04-22T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:28:15","slug":"15th-annual-pride-of-the-south-benefit-concert-ft-um-wind-ensemble-at-ford-center-423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/15th-annual-pride-of-the-south-benefit-concert-ft-um-wind-ensemble-at-ford-center-423\/","title":{"rendered":"15th Annual Pride of the South Benefit Concert ft. UM Wind Ensemble at Ford Center 4\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The <strong>15th Annual Pride of the South Benefit Concert<\/strong> featuring <strong>The University of Mississippi Wind Ensemble<\/strong> will be conducted by <strong>David Willson<\/strong>, Director of Bands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">David Willson\u00a0taught in the public schools of Mississippi for sixteen years, is Past-President of <strong>Mississippi Band Masters Association<\/strong> and was voted Mississippi&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4.23-UM-Wind.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\" size-full wp-image-24334 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4.23-UM-Wind.jpg?resize=600%2C402\" alt=\"4.23-UM Wind\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4.23-UM-Wind.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4.23-UM-Wind.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> Most Outstanding Band Director in 1989.\u00a0 He is in his twenty-fifth year as Director of Bands at The University of Mississippi where he was named Teacher of the Year in 2007 and awarded the Frist Award &#8220;for his service to students&#8221; in 2005. In 2010, Willson was honored by <strong>Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Fraternity<\/strong> with the Outstanding Contribution to Bands Award.\u00a0 Willson is Past-President of Phi Beta Mu International where he strongly promoted mentoring for band directors and service in the band profession. His Starting Beginner Band Students and Band Calisthenics are used extensively throughout the southeast. Willson is active nationally as\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_502356350\"><span class=\"aQJ\">a clinician, spe<\/span><\/span>aker, and adjudicator.\u00a0<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\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Free Admission<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 15th Annual Pride of the South Benefit Concert featuring The University of Mississippi Wind Ensemble will be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24333,"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":[52],"tags":[6399,6402,414,6404,6401,7067,6403,5004,6400,655],"class_list":["post-24332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-shows","tag-benefit-concert","tag-david-willson","tag-ford-center","tag-international-bandmasters-fraternity","tag-mississippi-band-masters-association","tag-ole-miss","tag-phi-beta-mu","tag-pride-of-the-south","tag-um-wind-ensemble","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ford-Center-FEAT.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24332","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}