{"id":4334,"date":"2012-04-25T14:59:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:59:57","slug":"4334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/04\/4334\/","title":{"rendered":"David McWilliams Anniversary Tribute Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Local singer\/songwriter of international renown, David Mc Williams passed away in January 2002.<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/david.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4335\" title=\"david\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/david.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a>David had many international hits including \u2018The Days of Pearly Spencer\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>On the 10<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of his death a tribute concert will be held at the Braid Arts Centre on Friday April 27<sup>th<\/sup>, 8pm. This special event will feature three of Northern Ireland\u2019s top singer\/songwriters; Bap Kennedy, Errol Walsh and Bob Speers, who are all great admirers of David McWilliams. Bob Speers, who was a very close friend of David, will be re-releasing his own hit album \u2018Northland\u2019 on the night.<\/p>\n<p>Also appearing on the stage at the Braid for the first time will be young local singer\/songwriter Tara Hoy who will soon be releasing her very first album. At the event The Ballymena based David Mc Williams Appreciation Society will be presenting a donation of \u00a32,000 to Belfast\u2019s Oh Yeah Centre. Following David\u2019s death this society was set up to promote local singer\/songwriters while preserving the legacy and spirit of the exceptional character that was David McWilliams.<\/p>\n<p>This event will be a rare treat and is part of the Ballymena Arts Festival. For tickets contact the Braid Box Office: 028 256 35900<\/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>Local singer\/songwriter of international renown, David Mc Williams passed away in January 2002. David had many international hits including \u2018The Days of Pearly Spencer\u2019. On the 10th anniversary of his death a tribute concert will be held at the Braid Arts Centre on Friday April 27th, 8pm. This special event will feature three of Northern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/04\/4334\/\">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\/4334"}],"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=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4338,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}