{"id":14794,"date":"2017-08-07T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T09:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=14794"},"modified":"2017-08-07T10:42:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T09:42:57","slug":"from-streets-of-london-to-main-street-bellaghy-ralph-mctell-to-play-seamus-heaney-homeplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/08\/from-streets-of-london-to-main-street-bellaghy-ralph-mctell-to-play-seamus-heaney-homeplace\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018Streets of London\u2019 to Main Street, Bellaghy:\u00a0Ralph McTell to play Seamus Heaney HomePlace"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>One of the UK\u2019s great storytellers, <strong>Ralph McTell<\/strong>, is set to play a one-off, intimate gig at <strong>Seamus Heaney HomePlace<\/strong> on <strong>Sunday 5 November<\/strong>.<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14797\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/press2-9-897x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"457\" \/>Currently celebrating over 50 years on the road, Ralph is a prolific and gifted songwriter known for his virtuoso guitar style.\u00a0 He made his debut in 1968 with the album \u2018Eight Frames a Second\u2019 and in 1974 the release of \u2018Streets of London\u2019 earned him an Ivor Novello Award. The song went to Number 2 on the UK Singles Chart in 1974 and has since been covered by more than 200 performers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of his latest trip to Northern Ireland, Ralph said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI am a huge admirer of Seamus Heaney and ever since I visited HomePlace last year I have hoped to perform a concert there.\u00a0 I regard it as an honour and a privilege to have been invited.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets for Ralph McTell at Seamus Heaney HomePlace are \u00a320 and are on sale now from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamusheaneyhome.com\/\">www.seamusheaneyhome.com<\/a> <\/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>One of the UK\u2019s great storytellers, Ralph McTell, is set to play a one-off, intimate gig at Seamus Heaney HomePlace on Sunday 5 November. Currently celebrating over 50 years on the road, Ralph is a prolific and gifted songwriter known for his virtuoso guitar style.\u00a0 He made his debut in 1968 with the album \u2018Eight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/08\/from-streets-of-london-to-main-street-bellaghy-ralph-mctell-to-play-seamus-heaney-homeplace\/\">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\/14794"}],"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=14794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14798,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14794\/revisions\/14798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}