{"id":29405,"date":"2018-07-26T19:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=29405"},"modified":"2018-07-26T19:36:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:36:35","slug":"the-guide-liverpool-new-lipa-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-guide-liverpool-new-lipa-companions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guide Liverpool: New LIPA Companions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguideliverpool.com\/nile-rodgers-among-new-lipa-companions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.theguideliverpool.com\/nile-rodgers-among-new-lipa-companions\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29406 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"theguide18a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/theguide18a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><strong>Nile Rodgers among new LIPA Companions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Award winning musical pioneer Nile Rodgers is to be made a Companion of The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) on Friday, 27 July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning composer, producer and guitarist will be one of seven luminaries of the arts and entertainment world to receive the accolade from LIPA\u2019s co-founder Sir Paul McCartney at the Institute\u2019s annual graduation ceremony. Nile, who co-founded the ground-breaking disco band Chic in 1976, is one of the industry\u2019s most sought-after producers and collaborators and was inducted into the Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Hall of Fame last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toyah Willcox<\/strong> \u2013 who\u2019s maintained a successful career as both a musician and an actor for over 40 years \u2013 will also be made a Companion. LIPA awards Companionships for two reasons: outstanding achievement and practical contribution to students\u2019 learning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29379 alignright\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"lipa18a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/lipa18a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"92\" \/>Nile Rodgers and Toyah Willcox will be joined by Broadway and West End sound designer John Leonard, former CEO of Sony Music UK and Ireland Paul Burger, Ali Campbell \u2013 who\u2019s a leading community arts practitioner and teacher, international lighting designer Felice Ross and dancer and choreographer Dean Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguideliverpool.com\/nile-rodgers-among-new-lipa-companions\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Guide Liverpool<\/strong><\/a>. See further press reports on this at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/chic-legend-nile-rodgers-honoured-14955482\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Liverpool Echo<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/newsliverpool\/chic-legend-nile-rodgers-will-be-honoured-by-sir-paul-mccartney-at-lipa-ceremony\/ar-BBL520P\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>msn.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nile Rodgers among new LIPA Companions Award winning musical pioneer Nile Rodgers is to be made a Companion of The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) on Friday, 27 July 2018. The award-winning composer, producer and guitarist will be one of seven luminaries of the arts and entertainment world to receive the accolade from LIPA\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,28,27],"tags":[1942,1943,1947],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29405"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29413,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405\/revisions\/29413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}