{"id":562024,"date":"2026-08-07T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562024\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:06:08","slug":"columbus-indie-duo-bird-and-byron-advances-on-americas-got-talent-ahead-of-aug-11-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562024\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus indie duo Bird and Byron advances on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d ahead of Aug. 11 round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An indie duo with central Ohio roots is making a run on one of TV\u2019s biggest stages.<\/p>\n<p>Bird and Byron, originally from Columbus, have advanced past the audition stage on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d this season. The pair grew up in New Albany and now live in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>Their next \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d appearance is in the callback round on Aug. 11. <\/p>\n<p>Bird and Byron also have a hometown show scheduled at A&amp;R Music Bar on Dec. 11. The duo is also connected with the Kids Mental Health Foundation at Nationwide Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An indie duo with central Ohio roots is making a run on one of TV\u2019s biggest stages. Bird&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-562024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562024","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=562024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}