{"id":2948,"date":"2011-05-31T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T12:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2011-05-31T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T12:38:38","slug":"2948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2011\/05\/2948\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for a Hoedown on 11th June!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/hoedown2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2949\" title=\"hoedown2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/hoedown2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a>Glengormley\u2019s Uptown Hoedown returns on Saturday 11 June with a fun-packed day of entertainment for all the family in Glengormley  Park.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p>A free family funzone with bouncy castles, face painting, arts &amp; crafts and dance workshops will take place from 12-6pm. Younger kids will love the teddy bears\u2019 picnic and kids games from 1-5pm \u2013 don\u2019t forget to bring your picnic!<\/p>\n<p>Stall holders from Newtownabbey\u2019s Speciality Market will display their wares in the park and you can take your chance on the Kentucky Derby and rodeo bull.<\/p>\n<p>Citybeat will also host the Glengormley heat of the Newtownabbey\u2019s Next Big Thing talent competition. The winners of this heat will compete against the winners of August\u2019s Shoreline Festival heat at the finale which will take place at the Big Busking Bonanza in September in Ballyclare.<\/p>\n<p>The musical entertainment will start at 3pm with \u201cShine\u201d performing favourite songs for all the family. Garth Brooks and Eagles Tribute acts will take to the stage for an evening concert at 7pm. The bouncy castles will stay into the evening, so if mum and dad want to listen to the concert, kids can play away in the background!<\/p>\n<p>So get yourself down to Glengormley Park on 11 June for some toe-tapping fun.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtownabbey.gov.uk\/hoedown\">www.newtownabbey.gov.uk\/hoedown<\/a> or follow us on Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uptownhoedown\">www.facebook.com\/uptownhoedown<\/a> or call 028 9034 0000.<\/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>Glengormley\u2019s Uptown Hoedown returns on Saturday 11 June with a fun-packed day of entertainment for all the family in Glengormley Park. A free family funzone with bouncy castles, face painting, arts &amp; crafts and dance workshops will take place from 12-6pm. Younger kids will love the teddy bears\u2019 picnic and kids games from 1-5pm \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2011\/05\/2948\/\">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\/2948"}],"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=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}