{"id":976,"date":"2018-01-26T19:14:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/music\/noted-guitarists-jim-earp-bill-benzel-to-perform-at-portfolio-coffeehouse-saturday\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T19:14:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:14:42","slug":"noted-guitarists-jim-earp-bill-benzel-to-perform-at-portfolio-coffeehouse-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/music\/noted-guitarists-jim-earp-bill-benzel-to-perform-at-portfolio-coffeehouse-saturday","title":{"rendered":"Noted Guitarists Jim Earp, Bill Benzel to Perform at Portfolio Coffeehouse Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-57554\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/jim-earp.jpg\" alt=\"jim-earp\" width=\"620\" height=\"552\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/2017\/11\/jim-earp-bill-benzel-mainland-style\/\">San Diego Troubadour<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The community is invited to a free performance on Saturday by noted mainland style and slack-key musicians Jim Earp, Bill Benzel and friends, Portfolio Coffeehouse announced this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim Earp contacted Portfolio Coffeehouse nearly a decade ago, and he\u2019s been playing at the\u00a0coffeehouse every time he\u2019s been in town since then,\u201d Portfolio Coffeehouse owner Kerstin\u00a0Kansteiner said in a statement. \u201cWe are excited to announce his return, in what has become a great annual tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u431VTb_5eE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Earp, Benzel and friends perform at the Retro Row coffeehouse as a way to get out and about during their annual visit to NAMM, the National Association of Music Merchants show in Anaheim where thousands of professionals from around the globe gather to check out the latest in music, recording technology and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really like to play and perform, rather than sitting in my hotel room at night,\u201d Earp said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The show will take place from 7:00PM to 9:00PM on Saturday. The performance is free to attend. For more information on Portfolio Coffeehouse, visit the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.PortfolioCoffeehouse.com\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Portfolio Coffeehouse is located at 2300 East 4th Street.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>{FG_GEOMAP [33.77153759999999,-118.16424380000001] FG_GEOMAP}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The community is invited to a free performance\u00a0by noted mainland style and slack-key musicians Jim Earp, Bill Benzel and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":66457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[543],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-portfolio-coffeehouse","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}