{"id":15624,"date":"2018-01-15T13:20:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T12:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=15624"},"modified":"2018-01-15T13:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T12:20:19","slug":"van-returns-to-the-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2018\/01\/van-returns-to-the-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Van returns to the Forum!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of music\u2019s true legends, Sir Van Morrison, returns to the Millennium Forum on Sunday 6 May as part of The City of Derry Jazz Festival<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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\"\"The multi award winning singer, composer and performer will be showcasing songs from his most recent studio albums Roll with the Punches<\/em> and Versatile<\/em> – as well as dipping into some of his greatest and best known hits from undoubtedly one of the most revered back catalogues in music history.<\/p>\n

Late last year Van Morrison released two albums,<\/em> Roll with the Punched <\/em>and<\/em> Versatile,<\/em> positive proof that Van Morrison is built differently to other artists. One of very few British recording artists to warrant the description \u2018living legend\u2019, Van is currently working at a rate to put musicians a third of his age to shame; an ethic that harks back to his early days as a recording artist who\u2019d easily release multiple brilliant long players within the space of a year.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0Roll with the Punches<\/em>\u00a0saw Van revisit many of the definitive rhythm and blues records that have stayed with him all his life, Van\u2019s latest album Versatile,<\/em> sees him delve further back into recorded music\u2019s archives to interpret some of the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century\u2019s greatest vocal jazz standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecording songs like these – especially the standards – gave me the chance to stretch out vocally and get back to the music that originally inspired me to sing – jazz!\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Van Morrison<\/p>\n

Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Cllr. Maol\u00edosa McHugh said he is delighted Van Morrison is making a long awaited return to the City of Derry Jazz Festival in 2018 saying it was a huge coup for the festival. He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Council, as organisers of the City of Derry Jazz Festival, is delighted to be working alongside the Millennium Forum & MCD to secure this top quality act for the festival. The last time Van Morrison performed as part of the Jazz Festival was back in 2012 and we are delighted to have him back this year. We are confident he will be a huge draw for jazz and blues music fans from all over the island of Ireland and are looking forward to another hugely successful May Bank Holiday weekend of festival fun.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss this very special performance by one of music\u2019s most inspirational artists at this year\u2019s City Of Derry Jazz Festival.<\/p>\n

Tickets go on-sale this Friday, 19 January at 9am and are priced \u00a364.50 and \u00a370.50.\u00a0 Telephone the Box Office on 71 264455 or visit millenniumforum.co.uk for bookings.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of music\u2019s true legends, Sir Van Morrison, returns to the Millennium Forum on Sunday 6 May as part of The City of Derry Jazz Festival   The multi award winning singer, composer and performer will be showcasing songs from his most recent studio albums Roll with the Punches and Versatile – as well as … Continued<\/a><\/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\/15624"}],"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=15624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15626,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions\/15626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}