{"id":12093,"date":"2011-09-21T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12093"},"modified":"2011-09-21T22:44:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T02:44:41","slug":"bahamian-music-great-reinvents-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/bahamian-music-great-reinvents-classics","title":{"rendered":"Bahamian Music Great Reinvents Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nassau, Bahamas &#8211; Decades of the best Bahamian songs have been reinvented and compiled for today&#8217;s listeners in the new CD Fresh Paint, which will be released September 30.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh Paint is the result of the musical mind of Fred Ferguson.\u00a0 In The Bahamas&#8217; music industry, Mr. Ferguson is recognized as being among the most talented musicians and composers of the modern era.\u00a0 For Fresh Paint, he searched through countless original songs to identify his list of the most iconic Bahamian songs in history.\u00a0 After churning them through his creative process, he has alchemized standards of bygone eras and freshened up more modern tunes to develop a CD that can be labeled as an instant classic.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"468\" height=\"268\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LkVMay1zl6U&amp;feature\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"468\" height=\"268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LkVMay1zl6U&amp;feature\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n&#8220;I am excited because this project breathes new life into our great songs,&#8221;Mr. Ferguson said. &#8220;Each of them represents a certain period in our musical history, but at the same time, they are all timeless. I believe this CD reinforces that classic quality of these songs, and introduces these hits to new generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nassau, Bahamas &#8211; Decades of the best Bahamian songs have been reinvented and compiled for today&#8217;s listeners in the new CD Fresh Paint, which will be released September 30.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh Paint is the result of the musical mind of Fred Ferguson.\u00a0 In The Bahamas&#8217; music industry, Mr. Ferguson is recognized as being among the most talented musicians and composers of the modern era.\u00a0 For Fresh Paint, he searched through countless original songs to identify his list of the most iconic Bahamian songs in history.\u00a0 After churning them through his creative process, he has alchemized standards of bygone eras and freshened up more modern tunes to develop a CD that can be labeled as an instant classic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am excited because this project breathes new life into our great songs,&#8221;Mr. Ferguson said. &#8220;Each of them represents a certain period in our musical history, but at the same time, they are all timeless. I believe this CD reinforces that classic quality of these songs, and introduces these hits to new generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By Clarence Rolle, MOT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades of the best Bahamian songs have been reinvented by music great Fred Ferguson and compiled for today&#8217;s listeners in the new CD Fresh Paint, which will be released September 30. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,46,22],"class_list":["post-12093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-arts","tag-celebrities","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}