{"id":6914,"date":"2014-03-12T21:23:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T20:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=6914"},"modified":"2014-03-12T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T20:23:39","slug":"portstewart-songwriters-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/03\/portstewart-songwriters-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Portstewart Songwriters Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portstewart Songwriters Festival is an exciting new music event funded by Coleraine Borough Council and the Department for Social Development.<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>The event is due to hit the\u00a0NorthCoast\u00a0on Friday 28th<\/sup> to Sunday 30th<\/sup>March with lots of opportunities for those who enjoy music.<\/p>\n

Featuring live music in bars and coffee shops along Portstewart Promenade throughout the weekend, with over 20 FREE events, the line up for the first ever Portstewart Songwriters Festival is looking unmissable!<\/p>\n

Bronagh Gallagher, SOAK and Paul Casey are set to headline the Festival with a \u2018Saturday Night Showcase\u2019 event at\u00a0PortstewartTown Hall, which will be hosted by Ralph McLean; while Gareth Dunlop, Anthony Toner and Amanda St John will perform an intimate \u2018In the Round\u2019 Session on the Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

The event will also incorporate a variety of song writing workshops, run by recognized singer-song writers and industry professionals, as well as illustrated talks by BBC Radio\u00a0Ulster\u2019s Ralph McLean and Stuart Bailie.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the Showcase events, workshops and talks are available from Coleraine Visitor Centre, telephone 028 7034 4723 and Flowerfield Arts Centre telephone 028 7083 1400. All gigs in the bars and coffee shops are FREE!<\/p>\n

To find out more and for full gig listing visit\u00a0www.northcoastni.com\/music<\/a>, find it on Facebook atwww.facebook.com\/PortstewartSongwritersFestival<\/a> or follow on Twitter @PortSongFest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portstewart Songwriters Festival is an exciting new music event funded by Coleraine Borough Council and the Department for Social Development. The event is due to hit the\u00a0NorthCoast\u00a0on Friday 28th to Sunday 30thMarch with lots of opportunities for those who enjoy music. Featuring live music in bars and coffee shops along Portstewart Promenade throughout the weekend, … 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\/6914"}],"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=6914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6917,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6914\/revisions\/6917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}