{"id":793890,"date":"2026-07-11T00:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793890\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:12:24","slug":"the-tea-party-receives-the-keys-to-the-city-am-800-cklw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793890\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tea Party receives the Keys to the City \u2013 AM 800 CKLW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A special recognition for a local rock band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The City of Windsor is honouring \u2018The Tea Party\u2019 and has presented the band with Keys to the City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The band is celebrating its 35th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jeff Martin, Stuart Chatwood, and Jeff Burrows formed the band in the early 90s, and now they are celebrating its 35th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Speaking on AM800\u2019s Mornings with Mike and Meg, Chatwood, who plays bass feels receiving the Keys to the City is an acknowledgement that you have contributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt gives us pleasure when we\u2019re around the world and people bring up Windsor, and we get to enlighten them because it\u2019s a forgotten part of Canada from time to time, and we just tell them how great it was and how much of a benefit of Detroit culture we were as well growing up, listening to rock ready from their end and Windsor, and it really shaped the band,\u201d says Chatwood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chatwood says recently performing at the Opera House in Sydney, Australia, was a career highlight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c23 tours it took us, but we eventually achieved them,\u201d says Chatwood. \u201cWe played with an orchestra and 3,000 people; it was incredible, and lots of people from Windsor actually came all the way to Australia. They\u2019ve been saving up for the trip of a lifetime to go there; it\u2019s like my local band is playing there. Let\u2019s go.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ZRVWI2DONRCZDBKRH5TRU4BUJU.jfif.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>AM800-News-Tea-Party-Keys-1-July-2026 Windsor mayor Drew Dilkens presents Keys to the City to local band The Tea Party, July 10, 2026. (City of Windsor) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Band drummer Jeff Burrows says all band members are from LaSalle and went to Sandwich Secondary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt started here, and it just started growing, and then organically it just blossomed from here to Europe, to Australia, to New Zealand,\u201d says Burrows. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The city recognized the band Friday morning at Rocket Innovation Studio, which is the former location of the Coach &amp; Horses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The band is known for a number of hits, including \u2018Temptation,\u2019 \u2018Heaven Coming Down,\u2019 \u2018Save Me,\u2019 and \u2018The Messenger.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A special recognition for a local rock band. The City of Windsor is honouring \u2018The Tea Party\u2019 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-793890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}