{"id":149,"date":"2004-02-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/article\/doug-gabriel-to-host-new-weekly-branson-idol-show"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"doug-gabriel-to-host-new-weekly-branson-idol-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Doug Gabriel to host new weekly Branson Idol Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Doug Gabriel to host new weekly Branson Idol Show<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">In addition to his award winning morning show, Doug Gabriel will have a new, once a week, late night show called <em>Branson Idol<\/em> which will open <st1:date year=\"2004\" day=\"16\" month=\"4\">April 16, 2004<\/st1:date> at the Legends Family Theatre.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>A rotating panel of celebrity judges including Roy Clark, Tony Orlando, Ronnie McDowell, Moe Bandy, Mickey Gilley, Larry Gatlin, Janet Ellis, the Hughes Brothers, Merle Osmond, Kirby VanBurch and Paul Harris head a list of the panel of celebrity judges who will critique the performers competing for a variety of prizes, personal appearances and a $5,000 grand prize. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">The judges critique and audience participation will determine the weekly winners who will then advance to the Grand Finale in October.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>Contestants will be found through auditions set in major regional cities including St. Louis, Tulsa, Little Rock, Dallas, Chicago, Springfield and Kansas City and may also submit an audio and photograph or video tape. To find out about the audition process go to the website www.bransonidol.com or call toll free 1-866-234-IDOL.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">True to Doug&rsquo;s style, he has made the <em>Branson Idol<\/em> project a fund raiser with part of the proceeds from each show going to Youth Life, a non-profit group which offers unconditional friendship for youth by providing positive alternatives to local youth through weekly clubs, small group Bible studies, sports, activities and trips. The Youth Life staff builds relationships with the students and earns the right to share the gospel and then introduces them to a local church of their choice for discipleship.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Call 417-337-8300 for show schedule and reservations.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a list of the panel of celebrity judges who will critique the performers competing for&#8230;personal appearances and a $5,000 grand prize performers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows-attractions-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}