{"id":18,"date":"2009-08-09T13:38:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T12:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2009-08-11T20:43:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T19:43:37","slug":"belfast-taste-and-music-festival-aug-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2009\/08\/belfast-taste-and-music-festival-aug-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Taste and Music Festival Aug 09"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Diageo Tent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well I had a great time in Botanic yesterday with my friend Chris – thanks to the Belfast Taste and Music Fest. Not knowing what to expect we were more than pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n

A bargain at a fiver for the entertainment and great company we met on the day. Being from the heart of mid ulster it was fanstastic to meet a friend of mine the minute we got through the gates who very kindly introduced me to the enigmatic Connie Cunningham and her husband – it was a great pleasure.<\/p>\n

Two years in planning every angle was covered.\u00a0 We arrived to the dulcit tones of Juliet Turner – perfect afternoon music – and then the boulevard of chefs mini restaurants with all the aromas floating through the air – it was a very difficult choice but found I spent most of my little branded tokens on original Chicago Pizza.\u00a0\u00a0 Believe me – it was more than good!<\/p>\n

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Jimmy - what a great guy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although I noticed while I was enjoying my pizza that the longest queue seemed to be for Mr. Paul Catterson of Mango Maghera (almost a neighbour of mine).\u00a0 All being well Paul will be supplying some gourmet treats at this years Lough Neagh Food Festival\u00a0 on the 12th September.<\/p>\n

Then James Huish and his band lit up the stage with their Micheal Buble style easy listening medley – this guy has a great voice – I loved it, but sadly not as much as I loved Jimmy Bannos’s Blueberry Blasters!!<\/p>\n

So huge congratulations to Connie and her team – for all her hard work pulling off such a huge event (it’s not as easy as some people might think).\u00a0 Everyone is talking about it very positively – NI needs more events like this – pulling people together from all backgrounds to enjoy good the amazing food and music that NI has to offer.<\/p>\n

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The Main Stage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Boulevard from a distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Keeping
Keeping the hungry public happy!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And Ireland loves Chicago! (Pizza)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well I had a great time in Botanic yesterday with my friend Chris – thanks to the Belfast Taste and Music Fest. Not knowing what to expect we were more than pleasantly surprised. A bargain at a fiver for the entertainment and great company we met on the day. Being from the heart of mid … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"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=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}