{"id":176,"date":"2015-02-23T22:19:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T22:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=176"},"modified":"2015-07-20T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:00:41","slug":"lrhr-welcomes-kevin-sekhani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"LRHR WELCOMES KEVIN SEKHANI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kevin-sekhani-promo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kevin-sekhani-promo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"kevin sekhani - promo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kevin-sekhani-promo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kevin-sekhani-promo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kevin-sekhani-promo-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kevin-sekhani-promo-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kevin-sekhani-promo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As a 20 year veteran of the Austin music scene, Kevin Sekhani has done it all. From blazing rock-n-roll to Holy Ghost Honkytonk, for years Sekhani has entertained crowds with heartfelt enthusiasm and poignant lyrics. In Austin, Sekhani spent his time working with Michael Ramos (John Mellencamp, Patty Griffin), Andrew Duplantis (Son Volt), and Austin Chronicle\u2019s three-time String Player of the Year winner Warren Hood. In 2010, Sekhani moved back to his home town of Lafayette, Louisiana to front The Mercy Brothers, a Gospel group walking the fine line of sinners and saints. Since the prodigal son\u2019s return home, he has won over the hearts of Jazz Fest and Festival International audiences, landed a top 5 spot on the Americana charts in Europe, toured Sweden, and signed his Gospel group to Louisiana Red Hot Records.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Sekhani\u2019s veracious songwriting extends beyond Gospel into secular territory with his new solo album \u201cDay Ain\u2019t Done\u201d set for release on Louisiana Red Hot Records early 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a 20 year veteran of the Austin music scene, Kevin Sekhani has done it all. From blazing rock-n-roll to Holy Ghost Honkytonk, for years Sekhani has entertained crowds with heartfelt enthusiasm and poignant lyrics. In Austin, Sekhani spent his time working with Michael Ramos (John Mellencamp, Patty Griffin), Andrew Duplantis (Son Volt), and Austin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,45],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases","tag-kevin-sekhani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5O8RF-2Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}