{"id":486997,"date":"2026-06-20T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/486997\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:15:30","slug":"vt-musician-sarah-king-covers-classic-rock-song-for-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/486997\/","title":{"rendered":"VT musician Sarah King covers classic rock song for Father’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Friday Song is likely one you already know: the Roger Waters’ penned Pink Floyd classic from 1975 – “Wish You Were Here.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Ripton-based Americana musician, Sarah King<\/a>, recorded the English rock band’s iconic hit last summer in Wisconsin, using studio time she’d won in a songwriter competition at the Great River Folk Festival in 2023.<\/p>\n

“I was supposed to use that time in 2024,” King said. But that year, King said she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.<\/p>\n

“It kind of threw everything for a loop, and I really haven’t done a whole lot musically since then,” King said.<\/p>\n

After surgeries, set-backs, recovery and vocal rehabilitation, King booked a mini tour last summer beginning at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Then her dad died unexpectedly.<\/p>\n

The theater offered to postpone, but King pressed on. <\/p>\n

“My dad was a huge live music fan and I know that he would have personally crawled back from the grave, waving his crutches in anger if I had even considered canceling a show on his behalf,” she said.<\/p>\n

King played that show at Town Hall Theater, then headed west to use the studio time.<\/p>\n

“I was in no condition to learn anything new and I knew who to reach out to: my longtime friend and occasional musical collaborator, John Galgano,” King said. <\/p>\n

They’d met in college and had once played the classic rock song on the fly, joking that they should strive to record it someday. <\/p>\n

King said the timing felt right to record it when John’s dad also passed away. <\/p>\n

“It gave our grief purpose and we decided to release the song for Father’s Day this year in honor of all of our fathers that we love and miss dearly.”<\/p>\n

King’s music is available on streaming platforms like Bandcamp and Spotify and on her YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Friday Song is likely one you already know: the Roger Waters’ penned Pink Floyd classic from 1975…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-486997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}