{"id":12064,"date":"2016-07-22T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=12064"},"modified":"2016-07-22T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:35:37","slug":"all-set-for-red-sails-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/07\/all-set-for-red-sails-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"All Set for Red Sails 2016!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>The weeklong Red Sails Festival organized by the Portstewart Community Association in conjunction with Causeway Coast and Glens Council and <\/strong><strong>The Department For Communities, will take place from the 24<sup>th<\/sup>-30<sup>th<\/sup> July.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/whats-on-300x250-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12065\" title=\"whats on 300x250 c\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/whats-on-300x250-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>The 2016 festival includes over 60 free events for all ages. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Including:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ritchie Remo\u2019s Big Band, The Errol Walsh Band, Wllie Drennan\u2019s Ulster Scots Folk Band and a reggae band from Scotland-Leanne and The Radix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also included are 2014 Britain\u2019s Got Talent Semi Finalist\u2019s-The Innova Irish Dance Company and Hugo Duncan\u2019s Radio Ulster Road Show, featuring several guest artists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plus lots more music including tributes to Status Quo and Ska. There will also be a variety of artists performing music in the local cafes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plus lots for the Kids-Workshops, Street Theatre and Talent, Sandcastle, Pavement Art, Fishing and Fancy Dress Competitions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New for 2016 is a singer\/songwriter competition on Thursday 28<sup>th<\/sup> July.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are also a couple of special events this year. Planned for Wednesday 27<sup>th<\/sup> July (with a four day window to allow for weather conditions)-Heather Clatworthy attempts to repeat an historic swim from Moville in Donegal to Portstewart. The original swim was completed by Mercedez Gleitze (the first British women to swim the English Channel) back in 1929. From 10am-5pm on Thursday 28<sup>th<\/sup> July there will be A World War I exhibition in Portstewart Town Hall. The exhibition includes a slideshow and members of the public can bring along their own family photos and newspaper memorabilia to be added to the show. The exhibition will also include a special Battle of the Somme tribute dance by the Bright lights Scottish Dancers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It all finishes on Saturday 30<sup>th<\/sup> July with a spectacular Fireworks display at 10.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For full details of the program visit <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redsails.co.uk\/\"><strong>www.redsails.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weeklong Red Sails Festival organized by the Portstewart Community Association in conjunction with Causeway Coast and Glens Council and The Department For Communities, will take place from the 24th-30th July. The 2016 festival includes over 60 free events for all ages. Including: Ritchie Remo\u2019s Big Band, The Errol Walsh Band, Wllie Drennan\u2019s Ulster Scots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/07\/all-set-for-red-sails-2016\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}