{"id":8564,"date":"2025-06-23T22:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2025-06-23T22:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:07:42","slug":"rainbow-kitten-surprise-at-ccnb-amphitheatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/23\/rainbow-kitten-surprise-at-ccnb-amphitheatre\/","title":{"rendered":"rainbow kitten surprise at ccnb amphitheatre &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.56.27\u202fAM-600x436.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8565\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.56.27\u202fAM-600x436.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.56.27\u202fAM-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.56.27\u202fAM-768x559.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.56.27\u202fAM-640x466.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.56.27\u202fAM.png 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still not running at full thrusters, but my wife and I did go see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rainbow_Kitten_Surprise\">Rainbow Kitten Surprise<\/a> at the nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnbamphitheatre.com\/\">CCNB Amphitheatre<\/a> at Simpsonville&#8217;s Heritage Park. They were good! Sandi&#8217;s description made me think they&#8217;d be more electronic dance music, but actually they reminded me more of prog rock viewed through an indie lens, with surprising influences from both rap and metal &#8211; four, sometimes five guitars were on stage at any one time, and the lead singer memorably rocked a day-glo electric guitar for one number. The opening band was also memorable &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Marcagi\">Michael Marcagi<\/a>, a good singer whose band was pretty tight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.57.46\u202fAM-600x453.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8566\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.57.46\u202fAM-600x453.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.57.46\u202fAM-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.57.46\u202fAM-768x580.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.57.46\u202fAM-640x483.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-12.57.46\u202fAM.png 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best part was the company, of course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moments. Seize them when you&#8217;ve got them. Because one day, they&#8217;ll run out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still not running at full thrusters, but my wife and I did go see Rainbow Kitten Surprise at the nearby CCNB Amphitheatre at Simpsonville&#8217;s Heritage Park. They were good! Sandi&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,75],"tags":[323,5],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-reviews","tag-the-universal-language","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8567,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/8567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}