{"id":41275,"date":"2017-08-22T08:44:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=41275"},"modified":"2017-08-23T14:18:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:18:41","slug":"ole-miss-to-host-national-anthem-auditions-september-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-to-host-national-anthem-auditions-september-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss to Host National Anthem Auditions September 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The<strong> Ole Miss Athletics Department<\/strong> and the <strong>University of Mississippi<\/strong> music department are looking for national anthem performers during an open audition\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1304641419\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday, September 1<\/span><\/span>. The auditions will be held from\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1304641420\"><span class=\"aQJ\">3-5 pm<\/span><\/span>, in the <strong>Nutt Auditorium<\/strong> on <strong>University Avenue<\/strong>, across from the <strong>Gertrude Ford Center for Performing Arts<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ole Miss faculty, staff and students, along with the general public, may take part in the auditions. Solo performances, ensemble and collaborative auditions are encouraged to participate.\u00a0The selected individual or group will perform the anthem at various athletic events on campus &#8211; with the exception of football games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">New this year, electronic submissions will be accepted in lieu of this live audition. Individuals interested in submitting their audition tape must upload their recording to the Ole Miss Athletics Facebook page (search Ole Miss Athletics). They can do so by sending the recording by direct message through the page. This must be submitted no later than\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1304641421\"><span class=\"aQJ\">5 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1304641422\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 1<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are extremely appreciative of the partnership we have with the music department this year with national anthem auditions,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0<strong>Paris Buchanan<\/strong>, associate director for marketing and fan experience.\u00a0\u201cHaving Rebel Nation and the Oxford community\u00a0showcase their talent and be a part of game day is something we look forward to each year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Auditions may be either vocal or instrumental. All vocal auditions must be performed\u00a0<em>a capella<\/em>\u00a0and each performance must be under 90 seconds in length.\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=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013\u00a0The Ole Miss Athletics Department and the University of Mississippi music department are looking for national<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":41276,"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":[16],"tags":[10363,40,3898,7067,2311,3,753,655],"class_list":["post-41275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-audition","tag-football","tag-national-anthem","tag-ole-miss","tag-sec","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-14-nutt-auditorium.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41275","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\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}