{"id":219271,"date":"2026-05-04T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219271\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:36:07","slug":"karen-slack-to-present-african-queens-at-piedmont-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219271\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Slack to Present African Queens at Piedmont Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Photo credit: Kia Caldwell)<\/p>\n<p>Piedmont Opera announces that Karen Slack will present \u201cAfrican Queens\u201d to kick off Winston-Salem\u2019s Juneteenth celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrican Queens\u201d features works by Jasmine Barnes, Damien Geter, Jessie Montgomery, Fred Onovwerosuoke, Will Liverman, Shawn Okpebholo, Dave Ragland, Carlos Simon, and Joel Thompson, alongside traditional repertoire. Slack performs with pianist Kevin Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The program will be offered entirely free to the Winston-Salem community by the John W. and Anna H. Hanes Foundation. The First Baptist on Fifth in Winston-Salem hosts the on June 18 concert.<\/p>\n<p>Read Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo credit: Kia Caldwell) Piedmont Opera announces that Karen Slack will present \u201cAfrican Queens\u201d to kick off Winston-Salem\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[86368,9,24,63,86369,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-219271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-karen-slack","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-piedmont-opera","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}