{"id":295044,"date":"2026-09-27T13:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295044\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:36:13","slug":"erie-philharmonic-kicks-off-season-with-michael-cavanaugh-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295044\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Philharmonic Kicks off Season with Michael Cavanaugh | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Erie Philharmonic kicked off its Pops season with a night of Elton John\u2019s greatest hits, featuring Michael Cavanaugh, who has been called the \u201cnew voice of the American rock and roll songbook\u201d on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ERIE PHIL.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1117\" height=\"602\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Cavanaugh returned to Erie for the season opener, wowing the audience with songs from Elton John\u2019s legendary catalog.<\/p>\n<p>During \u201cDon\u2019t Go Breaking My Heart,\u201d Erie\u2019s own Becca Keim of Rooftop Project joined Cavanaugh on stage to sing the Kiki Dee part.<\/p>\n<p>From \u201cGoodbye Yellow Brick Road\u201d to \u201cPhiladelphia Freedom,\u201d the performance featured some of Elton John\u2019s biggest hits, all backed by the Erie Philharmonic.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed Saturday\u2019s performance, there\u2019s another show Sunday at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie Philharmonic kicked off its Pops season with a night of Elton John\u2019s greatest hits, featuring Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[122052,7019,58939,53186,136,138,137,7502,15425,14485,78949,122053],"class_list":["post-295044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-becca-keim","tag-concert","tag-don","tag-elton-john","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-philharmonic","tag-live-music","tag-michael-cavanaugh","tag-pops-season","tag-rooftop-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}