{"id":18699,"date":"2017-06-04T04:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T03:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18699"},"modified":"2017-06-04T04:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T03:16:50","slug":"music-in-the-park-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18699","title":{"rendered":"Music in the Park &#8211; 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060330.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe annual Music in The Park was a sell out. The event is like one big party with many family and friendship groups converging on the Abbey Grounds to party and picnic together, and enjoy the music with everybody else.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060319.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThere were bands like Bigtopp, an energentic band, with a new take on ska;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060324.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nand the AGC Rock Band &#8211; an army band from the Adjutant General&#8217;s Corps. Very good and popular they were too.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060321.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe evening clouded over, after a sunny day, and there were a few drops of rain at one point, but that soon passed and didn&#8217;t scare anybody.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060326.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe evening concluded with a lot of flag waving, including many Union Jacks, and at least one Rainbow Flag &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060325.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nas Abingdon Town Band took to the stage led by the inimitable Steve Rich.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060327.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThey started with some modern classics. The song 500 miles went down particularly well with people up front stomping the 500 miles,  and photo bombing my camera.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060328.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe evening concluded with You Will Never Walk Alone, and music from the Proms &#8230; Land of Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia, and The National Anthem.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060317.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Park\" \/><br \/>\nThe evening finished with a reprise of the music and some spectacular fireworks. We went safely home afterwards to hear of another terrorist attack in London and pray for those affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Music in The Park was a sell out. The event is like one big party with many family and friendship groups converging on the Abbey Grounds to party and picnic together, and enjoy the music with everybody else. There were bands like Bigtopp, an energentic band, with a new take on ska; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699","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=18699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}