{"id":709,"date":"2019-04-11T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/04\/11\/2019411reel-big-fish-to-headline-springfest\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:33:13","slug":"2019411reel-big-fish-to-headline-springfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/04\/11\/2019411reel-big-fish-to-headline-springfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Reel Big Fish to headline Springfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">By Luke Lograno<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ska-punk band Reel Big Fish will make their way to Burt Kahn Court this coming Saturday. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The band will be performing as the headliner for WQAQ\u2019s Springfest concert along with opening act Asceral Envictus. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This year, WQAQ decided on their performers differently than in years past. Sophia Alfieri, the radio station\u2019s Public Relations manager, said this year was more focused on what the students wanted, <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThis year we did things a little differently, we sent outa poll\u201d said Alfieri, \u201cthey vote in the poll, we get the results back, we look at the top and then we reach out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rapper Flipp Dinero headlined last year\u2019s Springfest concert, but students are showing excitement for the change in genre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI like the rough, I like the little things, the stank notes\u201d said Quinnipiac student Sean Raggio, \u201cI just feel like I can connect to it more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The concert will precede Student Programming Board\u2019s Wake the Giant concert featuring rappers Blackbear and Bryce Vine, but students are still excited to see the 90\u2019s ska band.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI feel like there will be different crowds,\u201d said Raggio, \u201cbut I think Springfest will be a better show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Students enter free with their Q-Card and doors open for the event at 7 P.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The ska punk band will be headlining WQAQ\u2019s Springfest concert. Students have shown great interest in the show and have talked with QNN to share their excitement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[311,4,364],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qnn","tag-qnn","tag-quinnipiac","tag-wqaq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}