{"id":3504,"date":"2023-06-16T09:09:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2023-06-16T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:09:38","slug":"wildflowers-benefit-a-big-help-as-popular-music-program-expenses-top-30000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/wildflowers-benefit-a-big-help-as-popular-music-program-expenses-top-30000\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildflowers benefit a big help as popular music program expenses top $30,000"},"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>\u201cWe are so excited to see what the future holds for Connor Brite&#8217;s Wildflowers,\u201d Steph and Jeff Brite said after last Saturday&#8217;s second annual benefit event in Decatur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several hundred people attended the six-hour event held on the Madison St. Plaza. \u201cWe had a great turnout &#8230; crowd size and financially,\u201d the Brites said. \u201cWe had great weather and it was a fun night for all. We are so thankful to the community that continues to support us in so many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the future may hold is an expansion of the program which provides free music instruction for young people from Adams County. \u201cWe hope to expand our program to share the love of music with even more kids,\u201d the Brites said after the benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launched May 8, the program is currently providing instruction in piano, guitar and drumming to 11 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no charge to the students for anything, with the Connor Brite program picking up the tab for the instructors, rent at the Merit Center where the lessons are given, instruments, accessories and financing the concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all, program expenses have topped $30,000, making sponsorship, volunteer work and the benefit concert so essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eleven students are involved in the first year of the program which continues for five months. Four of the students are from South Adams schools, four from St. Joseph Elementary in Decatur, and one each from Bellmont, Adams Central and Wyneken Memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The instructors are Teri Morningstar and Sydney Sanderson, guitar; Curt Rash, drums; and Debbie Christian, piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students are allowed to take home their instruments for practice during the length of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connor Brite, the son of Jeff and Steph, and two of his friends, Trevor Ortiz and Jordan Fuelling, were killed by an impaired driver in a crash which occurred June 7, 2020, in Union County, Indiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com \u201cWe are so excited to see what the future holds for Connor Brite&#8217;s Wildflowers,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14,15],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/8FE38235793A485D9A687D28F60AF5A3.jpg?fit=648%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","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=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}