{"id":11393,"date":"2016-02-10T16:04:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=11393"},"modified":"2016-02-11T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T21:12:35","slug":"introducing-our-newest-contributor-gerard-longo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=11393","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Our Newest Contributor: Gerard Longo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Quinn-Sepia-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11396\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Quinn-Sepia-1-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"Quinn-Sepia\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Quinn-Sepia-1-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Quinn-Sepia-1.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20pt;\">With much pleasure, The Valley Ledger is proud to introduce our newest contributor Gerard Longo. Gerard will be keeping us up to date on the local music scene in and around the Lehigh Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20pt;\">Gerard Longo is a blogger, marketer, and indie music enthusiast who founded and launched Lehigh Valley Underground in early 2016. Lehigh Valley Underground provides indie music news, reviews, analysis and opinions for the local scene and original musicians around the world. The blog also plays host to The Quinn Spinn and QSLehighValley, two weekly podcasts that highlight indie artists from all over the world and here at home, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20pt;\">Gerard has deep ties to the Lehigh Valley. A New Jersey native, Gerard is a Moravian College grad, where he completed his degree in English (Writing) in the spring of 2010. 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