{"id":1571,"date":"2010-04-28T10:32:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T15:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewlamarche.com\/news\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2025-02-07T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:37:21","slug":"ottawas-own-cherry-suede-makes-top-20-in-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/2010\/04\/ottawas-own-cherry-suede-makes-top-20-in-first-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa&#8217;s Own Cherry Suede Makes Top 20 in First Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From brocknews.ca<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday, 28 April 2010 07:51<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ottawa Band One Step Closer to Opening for Bon Jovi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA, Ontario \u2013 Thanks in large part to the efforts of their dedicated fans, Cherry Suede has advanced to the second round of Bon Jovi\u2019s SuperBAND Tonight contest. Their song \u201cWhen I\u2019m Gone\u201d finished in the top 20 of the first round, earning Cherry Suede the chance to compete with 19 other bands for a dream gig \u2013 opening a show for Bon Jovi in Toronto this July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have gotten this far,\u201d says Randy Young, guitarist\/vocalist for Cherry Suede. \u201cThe response has been terrific, and we\u2019re getting a lot of new people visiting our site and downloading our music a result of this contest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second round of the SuperBAND Tonight contest (http:\/\/www.bonjovi.com\/ourstage) is currently under way. Fans can vote for their favorite song, and the winning band will play an opening slot at a Bon Jovi show in their city. Fans can also get to the contest site by entering to win a free guitar on the Cherry Suede site (http:\/\/www.cherrysuede.com\/bonjovicontest\/). After entering the Cherry Suede contest, users will be redirected to the SuperBAND Tonight site.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Cherry Suede, please visit www.cherrysuede.com.<\/p>\n<p>Cherry Suede, one of Ontario\u2019s most popular independent bands, has been entertaining fans and supporting an active, vibrant music community for the last 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From brocknews.ca Wednesday, 28 April 2010 07:51 Ottawa Band One Step Closer to Opening for Bon Jovi OTTAWA, Ontario \u2013 Thanks in large part to the efforts of their dedicated fans, Cherry Suede has advanced to the second round of Bon Jovi\u2019s SuperBAND Tonight contest. Their song \u201cWhen I\u2019m Gone\u201d finished in the top 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cherry-suede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}