{"id":28014,"date":"2025-08-14T09:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=28014"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:15:46","slug":"decatur-concerts-back-to-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/decatur-concerts-back-to-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur concerts back to country music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Decatur Chamber&#8217;s Summer Concert Series continues bouncing this week, this time back to country music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Straitjack, a Fort-Wayne based band, will be performing from 7 to 9:30 on the Madison St Plaza tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The July 24 concert featured Journey music, followed by the music of the Highwaymen and, last week, it was back to pop rock, Crush Bon Jovi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Straitjack-playing.jpg?resize=640%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Straitjack-playing.jpg?w=833&amp;ssl=1 833w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Straitjack-playing.jpg?resize=300%2C86&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Straitjack-playing.jpg?resize=768%2C219&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Straitjack says it plays mostly &#8217;80s-&#8217;90s country music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with a focus on George Strait and Alan Jackson, along with other country artists from yesterday and today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band has been playing all around the area this summer, including appearances at Hoagland Days and in Monroeville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five guys comprising the band are Joel Young, Luke Landis, Gary Martin, Bob Creater, Ed Couture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No admission is charged for the concerts \u2013 this week&#8217;s will be the 11th&nbsp;of 13 scheduled this year \u2013 which also include food vendors and adult beverages by The Oasis Pub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The Decatur Chamber&#8217;s Summer Concert Series continues bouncing this week, this time back to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,56,15],"class_list":["post-28014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-decatur","tag-events","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Straitjack-playing.jpg?fit=833%2C238&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28016,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28014\/revisions\/28016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}