{"id":22236,"date":"2022-10-26T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22236"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:04:56","slug":"the-international-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-international-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=nov22_portland_monthly_magazine&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=20&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interview by Sofie Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jenny Van West is sitting in a warm orange studio, chatting with a group of people who have come to share music with her.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSee? It\u2019s this flexible structure that\u2019s allowing us to make these connections,\u201d the Portland-based Americana and Roots Music songwriter says.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With two records released, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something Real<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happiness to Burn<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Van West has played venues across the world, received numerous awards, and spent time on American and European charts. She\u2019s the founder of the <\/span><b>Immigrant Music Connection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, teaching music and leading community concerts for new Mainers, as well as curating the International Open Mic.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What led you to create IMC Portland?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meeting somebody and then meeting a whole mess of people. There was this young guy walking in the other direction on Congress Street. I had my fiddle and guitar with me, and I said hi. He turned around and said, \u201cHi, is that a guitar?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jenny-Van-West-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jenny-Van-West-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jenny-Van-West-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jenny-Van-West-1-200x267.png 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Jenny-Van-West-1-263x350.png 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With two records released, Something Real and Happiness to Burn, Van West has played venues across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,955],"tags":[1210,1211,1209,237,1208],"class_list":["post-22236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-most-intriguing-mainers","tag-imc-portland","tag-immigrant-music-connection","tag-jenny-van-west","tag-musician","tag-november-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22355,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22236\/revisions\/22355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}