{"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":"closed","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":248,"url":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/homegoing-information-for-bishop-walter-hawkins\/","url_meta":{"origin":5423,"position":0},"title":"UPDATE: Homegoing Information for Bishop Walter Hawkins","author":"Martin Williams","date":"July 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the official information for the homegoing services of Bishop Walter Hawkins. 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