{"id":46014,"date":"2018-04-24T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=46014"},"modified":"2018-04-24T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T21:21:57","slug":"internationally-known-fife-player-sharde-thomas-kicks-off-double-decker-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/internationally-known-fife-player-sharde-thomas-kicks-off-double-decker-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Internationally-Known Fife Player Sharde Thomas Kicks Off Double Decker Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Saturday, April 28<br \/>\n10:15 am<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fifemastor\/\"><strong>Sharde Thomas<\/strong><\/a> was born in <strong>North Mississippi<\/strong> in 1990 and is the granddaughter of the <strong>North Mississippi Fife &amp; Drum Master<\/strong>, the late <strong>Otha Turner<\/strong>. Sharde was her grandfather\u2019s heir of the mastery of the Fife &amp; Drum at a\u00a0young age. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sharde released her debut album in 2010 titled <em>What Do I Do<\/em>\u00a0and released her sophomore album in\u00a02013 titled <em>Shawty Blues<\/em>. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sharde has worked with greats like <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>, <strong>Bobby Rush<\/strong>, <strong>Cyndi Lauper<\/strong>, <strong>Mavis\u00a0Staples<\/strong>, <strong>The Wandering<\/strong>, <strong>The North Mississippi All-Stars<\/strong>, and many others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">She is the lead vocalist and plays the\u00a0Fife in the <strong>Rising Stars Fife &amp; Drum band<\/strong>. The band performs a mixture of Folk, Blues, Pop, and Gospel\u00a0music. The group has also traveled to <strong>Europe<\/strong>, <strong>Paris<\/strong>, <strong>New Orleans<\/strong>, <strong>Chicago<\/strong>, performed at the <strong>Blues Rules<\/strong> in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Switzerland<\/strong>, performed at the 2017 <strong>Cognac Blues Passions<\/strong> and many, many more. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The \u201cRising Stars Fife &amp;\u00a0Drum\u201d released the Interlude in 2017. The \u201cRising Star Fife &amp; Drum\u201d music is featured in <em>Super-Size Me<\/em>,\u00a0and <em>Gangs of New York<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0L8pymGmKwQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\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>Saturday, April 28 10:15 am Sharde Thomas was born in North Mississippi in 1990 and is the granddaughter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":46015,"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":[3755,12249,4076,5798,3818,12248,4005,12252,3765,12251,12250],"class_list":["post-46014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-localfestivals","tag-bobby-rush","tag-cyndi-lauper","tag-eric-clapton","tag-mavis-staples","tag-north-mississippi","tag-north-mississippi-fife-drum-master","tag-otha-turner","tag-rising-stars-fife-drum-band","tag-sharde-thomas","tag-the-north-mississippi-all-stars","tag-the-wandering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-24-Sharde-Thomas.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46014","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=46014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}