{"id":3224,"date":"2013-08-14T16:18:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2021-11-09T16:07:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:07:03","slug":"auggies-earn-behind-the-scenes-opportunity-on-bon-jovi-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2013\/08\/14\/auggies-earn-behind-the-scenes-opportunity-on-bon-jovi-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggies earn behind-the-scenes opportunity on Bon Jovi tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3435\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3435\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/Auggie-Bon-Jovi-Tour.jpg\" alt=\"Auggies on stage at Bon Jovi Concert\" width=\"265\" height=\"139\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Auggies had the rare opportunity to go on stage at the Bon Jovi concert this past spring.<br \/>The group was interviewed by television stations\u2014including KARE 11, KSTP 5, and<br \/>WCCO 4\u2014about their community service, education, and experiences working backstage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Six Augsburg College students were given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get an inside look at the music business when they worked backstage during the Bon Jovi \u201cBecause We Can\u201d tour held in April at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. The students were selected for the band\u2019s Community Service College Campaign based on their community\u00a0engagement and leadership. Participants included [pictured L to R] Alom Martinez Aleman \u201913, Andrea Batt \u201913, Alexandra Jamieson \u201914, James \u201cBear\u201d Mahowald \u201913, Thu Nguyen \u201915, and Morgan Waldorf \u201915. The group got hands-on experience in public relations, media, management, and ticketing; and took advantage of the opportunity to network with media and music professionals.<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Inside Augsburg Bon Jovi story\" href=\"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news-archives\/2013\/04_01_13\/BonJovi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Augsburg: Read more about Auggies backstage.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Augsburg College students were given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get an inside look at the music business when they worked backstage during the Bon Jovi \u201cBecause We Can\u201d tour held in April at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. The students were selected for the band\u2019s Community Service College Campaign based on their <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-summer-2013"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11706,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/11706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}