{"id":46619,"date":"2023-09-21T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=46619"},"modified":"2023-09-21T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:27:43","slug":"holdin-back-plays-polar-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2023\/09\/21\/holdin-back-plays-polar-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Holdin&#039; Back plays Polar Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><\/div>\n<p>HOLDEN \u2014 Local band Holdin&#8217; Back the 60&#8217;s closed out its concert season during the WooSox&#8217;s final 2023 homestand. The band was invited to join the WooSox at Polar Park with a pregame concert at Gate A on Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Smith of Holden, on bass, keyboards and vocals; Dave Gozdur of Holden, on drums and vocals; Joe Reidy of Westminster on rhythm guitar, trombone, bass and vocals; and Ronnie Medeiros of Westminster on lead guitar and vocals, the band&#8217;s new &#8217;60s roster, played to increasing crowd sizes at 11 area bandstands this summer, plus Holden Days and the Sterling Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, the band, which has evolved from a power trio to a contemporary band to a &#8217;60s band, will be 10 years old. Original members Smith and Gozdur continue to rock outdoor audiences throughout Central Mass., and with Medeiros and Reidy have created a unique, &#8217;60s sound that will continue to entertain for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLDEN \u2014 Local band Holdin&#8217; Back the 60&#8217;s closed out its concert season during the WooSox&#8217;s final 2023 homestand. The band was invited to join the WooSox at Polar Park with a pregame concert at Gate A on Sept. 14. Craig Smith of Holden, on bass, keyboards and vocals; Dave Gozdur of Holden, on drums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}