{"id":5423,"date":"2013-04-04T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gospelflava.com\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2013-04-04T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:04:41","slug":"gala-honoring-dr-edwin-hawkins-august-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/gala-honoring-dr-edwin-hawkins-august-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"Gala Honoring Dr. Edwin Hawkins August 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark your calendars for August 10th as people will gather from the four corners of the world to honor Dr. Edwin Hawkins for 50 years in Gospel Music.\u00a0 Hawkins is w\"Edwin<\/a>idely regarded as an architect of the contemporary Gospel sound and his arrangement of the standard Oh Happy Day remains one of the world’s best loved gospel songs.\u00a0 A star studded gala is being planned\u00a0 in the city of Oakland, CA with participation from a venerable list of who’s who in Gospel including Richard Smallwood, Tramaine Hawkins, Daryl Coley, Chrystal Rucker, Dr. Teresa Hairston and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark your calendars for August 10th as people will gather from the four corners of the world to honor Dr. Edwin Hawkins for 50 years in Gospel Music.\u00a0 Hawkins is widely regarded as an architect of the contemporary Gospel sound and his arrangement of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,31],"tags":[127,43,92,1504,134,936],"class_list":["post-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-news-and-updates","category-life-status-births-and-obituaries","tag-daryl-coley","tag-edwin-hawkins","tag-lady-tramaine-hawkins","tag-oh-happy-day","tag-richard-smallwood","tag-teresa-hairston"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":82,"url":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/edwin-hawkins-malf-in-chicago\/","url_meta":{"origin":5423,"position":0},"title":"Edwin Hawkins' MALF in Chicago","author":"Gregory Gay","date":"June 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The 29th annual Edwin and Walter Hawkins Music and Arts Love Fellowship Conference (formerly the Music and Arts Seminar) converged upon the \"Gospel Music Capital of the World\", Chicago, Illinois with a week of workshops, panel discussions, new artist showcases, \u00a0musicals and services the week of June 20th. 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