{"id":117766,"date":"2024-05-23T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/23\/long-island-music-entertainment-hall-of-fame-anniversary-concert-canceled-because-billy-joel-cant-attend\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T03:02:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T03:02:00","slug":"long-island-music-entertainment-hall-of-fame-anniversary-concert-canceled-because-billy-joel-cant-attend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/23\/long-island-music-entertainment-hall-of-fame-anniversary-concert-canceled-because-billy-joel-cant-attend\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island Music &amp; Entertainment Hall of Fame anniversary concert canceled because Billy Joel can&#8217;t attend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-22\/Getty_BillyJoel_52224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Myrna M. Suarez\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Long Island Music &amp; Entertainment Hall of Fame had planned a 20th anniversary concert for June 7\u00a0to celebrate the music of <strong>Billy Joel<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 but it&#8217;s been canceled because Billy can&#8217;t make it.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement provided to ABC Audio, the organization said the event, which was also to have celebrated the induction of Billy&#8217;s longtime agent <strong>Dennis Arfa<\/strong>, has been &#8220;cancelled due to family commitments preventing Joel from attending.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LIMEHOF sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience this cancellation may cause and thanks you for your understanding,&#8221; the statement continues. &#8220;Tickets will be refunded at the place of purchase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event was to have featured performances by Billy&#8217;s daughter <strong>Alexa Ray Joel<\/strong>,<strong> Debbie<\/strong> <strong>Gibson<\/strong>,<strong> Darryl McDaniels <\/strong>of<strong> Run-DMC<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0The Rascals<\/strong>\u2019<strong> Felix Cavaliere<\/strong>, legendary songwriter<strong> Jimmy Webb<\/strong>\u00a0and others.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myrna M. Suarez\/Getty Images The Long Island Music &amp; Entertainment Hall of Fame had planned a 20th anniversary concert for June 7\u00a0to celebrate the music of Billy Joel\u00a0\u2014 but it&#8217;s been canceled because Billy can&#8217;t make it. In a statement provided to ABC Audio, the organization said the event, which<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/23\/long-island-music-entertainment-hall-of-fame-anniversary-concert-canceled-because-billy-joel-cant-attend\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}