{"id":1465,"date":"2015-08-31T16:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T20:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2015-09-01T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T18:34:18","slug":"sebastien-bonnot-08-and-christina-mcbride-92-organize-katrina-10-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2015\/08\/31\/sebastien-bonnot-08-and-christina-mcbride-92-organize-katrina-10-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastien Bonnot \u201908 and Christina McBride \u201992 Organize Katrina 10 Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1466\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/08\/Sebastian-Bonnott-and-Christina-McBride-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1466\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/08\/Sebastian-Bonnott-and-Christina-McBride-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy of Sebastian Bonnott and Christina McBride\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/08\/Sebastian-Bonnott-and-Christina-McBride-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/08\/Sebastian-Bonnott-and-Christina-McBride-2-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/08\/Sebastian-Bonnott-and-Christina-McBride-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Sebastian Bonnot and Christina McBride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What were Williston alumni doing this weekend? Well, in New Orleans,\u00a0Sebastien Bonnot \u201908 and Christina McBride \u201992 were helping to coordinate and put on the star-studded Katrina 10 Tribute. The invite-only &#8220;New Orleans Honors&#8221; featured\u00a0Harry Connick Jr.,\u00a0Branford Marsalis,\u00a0mayor Mitch Landrieu,\u00a0Trombone Shorty, Kermit Ruffins, Allen Toussaint, Michael Cerveris, Irma Thomas and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band,\u00a0James Carville,\u00a0\u00a0Mary Matalin, Cokie Roberts, Bryan Batt,\u00a0Archie Manning, Walter Isaacson,\u00a0Cerveris, and\u00a0Cokie\u00a0Roberts. The evening was a tribute to all of the volunteers and organizations that assisted the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christine was the project manager and I was the assistant to Gary Solomon Jr., who produced the event,&#8221; Mr. Bonnot noted in an email. &#8220;We both work for his company, <a href=\"http:\/\/solomongroup.com\/\">Solomon Group<\/a>, an entertainment design and production firm.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What were Williston alumni doing this weekend? Well, in New Orleans,\u00a0Sebastien Bonnot \u201908 and Christina McBride \u201992 were helping to coordinate and put on the star-studded Katrina 10 Tribute. The invite-only &#8220;New Orleans Honors&#8221; featured\u00a0Harry Connick Jr.,\u00a0Branford Marsalis,\u00a0mayor Mitch Landrieu,\u00a0Trombone Shorty, Kermit Ruffins, Allen Toussaint, Michael Cerveris, Irma Thomas and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band,\u00a0James &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2015\/08\/31\/sebastien-bonnot-08-and-christina-mcbride-92-organize-katrina-10-tribute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sebastien Bonnot \u201908 and Christina McBride \u201992 Organize Katrina 10 Tribute<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}