{"id":118971,"date":"2023-05-30T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T02:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118971"},"modified":"2023-05-30T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T02:30:26","slug":"this-saturday-in-bethlehem-ward-hayden-the-outliers-on-tour-in-support-of-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118971","title":{"rendered":"This Saturday in Bethlehem &#8211; Ward Hayden &#038; The Outliers on tour in support of new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Featured Image: Ward Hayden &amp; The Outliers photo id (l to r) Handsome Greg Hall, Ward Hayden, Josh Kiggans, and Cody Nilsen<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><b>Ward Hayden &amp; The Outliers<\/b><i>\u00a0<\/i>are on tour to support their\u00a0<b>new album &#8211;\u00a0<\/b><b>South Shore\u00a0<\/b>(May 5), and stoping in\u00a0<b>Bethlehem, PA<\/b>\u00a0for a performance at\u00a0<b>Godfrey Daniels<\/b>\u00a0on\u00a0<b>Saturday, June 3rd.<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Check out the music videos for \u201c(Breaking Up With) My Hometown\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tX6AWf_j2As\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/youtu.be\/tX6AWf_j2As&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1685585159049000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3eflMJdad30EOjEm-xaAwA\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/cQnoLD1Lqvg<\/a>) and \u201cWrite a Song\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xrC5sEkJNVQ\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/youtu.be\/xrC5sEkJNVQ&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1685585159049000&amp;usg=AOvVaw07tQHXbqWX_jT-NIFLBg2l\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/xrC5sEkJNVQ<\/a>)<wbr \/>, from the album.<\/div>\n<div>Also, the lyric video for \u201cCan\u2019t Wake Up\u201d, here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rdZh7iF2PCg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/youtu.be\/rdZh7iF2PCg&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1685585159049000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ojOjbx8xPmSWeNz12f_Fk\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/<wbr \/>rdZh7iF2PCg<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>The songs hold great personal meaning to songwriter Ward Hayden (read more below).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The collection of songs as a whole represent a very personal journey for Hayden who notes,\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s the closest thing I\u2019ve ever done to a concept album. I wanted to just recount my experience of growing up in a small town and what it meant and what it took to get out and leave that behind and try to pursue something, chase after something that was and is a dream. I used to joke that my greatest achievement was I got out of here because it was no easy feat.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>Glide Magazine\u00a0<\/i>says\u00a0&#8220;Ward Hayden &amp; The Outliers\u00a0are a musical force to be reckoned with. From heart wrenching ballads\u00a0to foot-stompin\u2019 rock \u2018n\u2019 roll,\u00a0whether live or on record, Ward Hayden &amp; the Outliers deliver every time.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nMeredith Louie<br \/>\nSHOCK INK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Image: Ward Hayden &amp; The Outliers photo id (l to r) Handsome Greg Hall, Ward Hayden, Josh Kiggans, and Cody Nilsen Ward Hayden &amp; The Outliers\u00a0are on tour to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Saturday in Bethlehem &#8211; Ward Hayden &#038; The Outliers on tour in support of new album<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ward-Hayden-The-Outliers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}