{"id":5775,"date":"2012-02-06T23:33:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2012-02-06T23:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:33:49","slug":"bigging-up-the-arts-festival-ball-and-george-haslam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5775","title":{"rendered":"Bigging up the Arts Festival Ball and George Haslam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12020601.jpg\" alt=\"Arts Festival Ball\" \/><br \/>\nThe Swingtime Big Band plus Dorothy Shaw, Piano, have been practising, in the Old Magistrates Court, for the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150514124223\/http:\/\/abingdonartsfestival.org.uk\/ball.html\">Abingdon Arts Festival Ball<\/a> .<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12020605.jpg\" alt=\"Arts Festival Ball\" \/><br \/>\nThe band plays original arrangements by Glenn Miller, Count Basie and many more stars of the Swing Era.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12020607.jpg\" alt=\"Arts Festival Ball\" \/><br \/>\nJust checking out their leader <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Haslam\">George Haslam on Wikipedia<\/a>, and I see he is an &#8216;<em>English avant-garde jazz saxophonist.<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Born in Preston, Lancashire, he has lived longer than most of us in Abingdon Oxfordshire, where he has helped ensure that people can hear British Jazz played in Abingdon pubs and halls, and has gone on to export jazz to places like Hungary, Cuba, Argentina, and Mexico. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swingtime Big Band plus Dorothy Shaw, Piano, have been practising, in the Old Magistrates Court, for the Abingdon Arts Festival Ball . The band plays original arrangements by Glenn Miller, Count Basie and many more stars of the Swing Era. Just checking out their leader George Haslam on Wikipedia, and I see he is [&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-5775","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\/5775","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=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}