{"id":186,"date":"2025-05-07T04:36:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alphornsf.org\/?p=186"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:39:03","slug":"music-from-the-swiss-alps-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Music from the Swiss Alps in the San Francisco Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>The first part of 2025 has been challenging, but alphorn makes good therapy. We have had the most participation when meeting at the Lake Merritt location. Since that location seems to work best, and it\u2019s nice to play by the lake, we\u2019ll continue to meet there for the weekend morning get-together. Because some folks can\u2019t meet on Sundays, we\u2019ll have some Saturday meetups too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Jonathon and Mary have been meeting when their schedules allow at BART stations in Berkeley and Oakland where we have attracted a lot of attention, including on social media, and brought alphorn joy to many.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:10px\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"813\" height=\"775\" src=\"http:\/\/alphornsf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jonathan_and_mary_at_bart.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" style=\"width:335px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jonathan_and_mary_at_bart.png 813w, https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jonathan_and_mary_at_bart-300x286.png 300w, https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jonathan_and_mary_at_bart-768x732.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 813px) 100vw, 813px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mary and Jonathan at the Berkeley BART Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"855\" height=\"833\" src=\"http:\/\/alphornsf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jonathan_with_switzerland_poster.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jonathan_with_switzerland_poster.png 855w, https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jonathan_with_switzerland_poster-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jonathan_with_switzerland_poster-768x748.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jonathan at the Swiss Consulate in San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:10px\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><br>Jonathon played at the Swiss Consulate at their \u201cHeidi goes AI\u201d event, which was a ton of fun! Many kids tried the alphorn, and enjoyed the experience. I hope that we can continue to bring our natural tones to the Swiss Consulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead to summer events including alphorn meetings in Washington and Utah, as well as at Swiss Park in Newark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first part of 2025 has been challenging, but alphorn makes good therapy. We have had the most participation when meeting at the Lake Merritt location. Since that location seems to work best, and it\u2019s nice to play by the lake, we\u2019ll continue to meet there for the weekend morning get-together. Because some folks can\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphornssf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}