{"id":13592,"date":"2015-03-19T23:16:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13592"},"modified":"2015-03-19T23:16:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:16:42","slug":"40-years-inspiring-music-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13592","title":{"rendered":"40 years of Abingdon Music Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15031610.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Music Centre\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonmusic.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abingdon Music Centre<\/a> was established in 1975, 40 years ago. Their aim is to give the people of Abingdon opportunities to make music, whatever their age or experience.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15031618.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Music Centre\" \/><br \/>\nAt the weekend there were a couple of concerts for members and families. The second was the &#8216;Teacher Members&#8217; Concert, where teachers at the centre presented some of their pupils, and sometimes played alongside. It took place at St Nicolas Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15031615.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Music Centre\" \/><br \/>\nMost of the performers were too young to be shown on the internet without asking parents permission, but George Haslam and the Sunday Saxes do not fit that category.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15031617.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Music Centre\" \/><br \/>\nThe evening ended with an inspirational performance by two of the teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Music Centre was established in 1975, 40 years ago. Their aim is to give the people of Abingdon opportunities to make music, whatever their age or experience. At the weekend there were a couple of concerts for members and families. The second was the &#8216;Teacher Members&#8217; Concert, where teachers at the centre presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}