{"id":2116,"date":"2018-01-23T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jazzinthegardens.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2018-01-25T11:51:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:51:36","slug":"chaka-khan-anita-baker-fantasia-joe-more-to-perform-at-2018-jazz-in-the-gardens-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/2018\/chaka-khan-anita-baker-fantasia-joe-more-to-perform-at-2018-jazz-in-the-gardens-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaka Khan, Anita Baker, Fantasia, Joe &#038; More to Perform at 2018 Jazz in the Gardens Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jazz in the Gardens festival will return for its 13th annual music celebration this March, bringing a community of jazz, funk and R&amp;B lovers together in Miami Gardens, Florida, with some of the genres&#8217; most influential artists taking the stage for the two-day event.<\/p>\n<p>The festival announced the lineup, which includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chaka-khan\">Chaka Khan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/smokey-robinson\">Smokey Robinson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/joe\">Joe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/fantasia\">Fantasia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/anita-baker\">Anita Baker<\/a>, who recently announced that her farewell concert series will commence in March. There will also be an &#8220;I Love the 90s&#8221; tribute, featuring &#8217;90s\u00a0key players <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/salt-n-pepa\">Salt-N-Pepa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/kid-n-play\">Kid &#8216;N\u00a0Play<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/biz-markie\">Biz Markie<\/a> and Trick Daddy.<\/p>\n<p>Radio personality Rickey Smiley will host the annual event, which will take place at the Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday (March 17) and Sunday (March 18). Last year&#8217;s event featured performances from Jill Scott, LL Cool J, Robin Thicke, Common and more.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Jazz in the Gardens festival or to purchase tickets, visit the\u00a0event&#8217;s site\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzinthegardens.com\/tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8095774\/jazz-in-the-gardens-2018-lineup-chaka-khan\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jazz in the Gardens festival will return for its 13th annual music celebration this March, bringing a community of jazz, funk and R&amp;B lovers together in Miami Gardens, Florida, with some of the genres&#8217; most influential artists taking the stage for the two-day event&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzinthegardens.com\/firstact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}