{"id":95,"date":"2018-03-25T09:19:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T09:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/?p=95"},"modified":"2018-04-07T12:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T12:19:15","slug":"a-fabulous-opening-night-and-news-of-our-next-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"A fabulous opening night &#8211; and news of our next event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our opening night at Soper Hall, Caterham on March 23rd was a huge success. \u00a0To be honest, we were taken by surprise by the attendance. \u00a0We had the room set-out for a smaller crowd and we had to quickly change the layout on the fly and bring in extra chairs. \u00a0It was standing room only by the time the Martin Smith Band took to the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The band quickly built a rapport with a brilliantly responsive audience. \u00a0The set included great numbers ranging across &#8220;rhythm and blues&#8221; styles. \u00a0There was some B.B King, Albert King, Santana, Bill Withers, Robben Ford and more. \u00a0By the time \u00a0the band provided a storming performance of Wilson Pickett&#8217;s &#8220;Land of a Thousand Dances&#8221; \u00a0folks were up and dancing and joining the chorus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our next event<\/strong> will be at <strong>Soper Hall, Caterham<\/strong> on <strong>Friday, 20th March<\/strong>. The <strong>Martin Smith Band<\/strong> will headline again and will be joined by the brilliant saxophonist <strong>Red Brooks<\/strong>. \u00a0Due to the massive response to our March event, we are strongly recommending purchasing tickets in advance. We are offering low cost &#8220;early bird&#8221; tickets &#8211; only \u00a35 if you book by midnight on 8th April.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"tt-widget\">\n        <script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.tickettailor.com\/js\/widgets\/min\/widget.js\"\n          data-url=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/all-tickets\/39323\/e8df\/ref\/website_widget\/\"\n          data-type=\"inline\"\n          data-inline-minimal=\"false\"\n          data-inline-show-logo=\"1\"\n          data-inline-bg-fill=\"true\"\n          data-inline-inherit-ref-from-url-param=\"\"\n          data-inline-ref=\"website_widget\">\n        <\/script>\n      <\/div>\n    \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our opening night at Soper Hall, Caterham on March 23rd was a huge success. \u00a0To be honest, we were taken by surprise by the attendance. \u00a0We had the room set-out for a smaller crowd and we had to quickly change the layout on the fly and bring in extra chairs. \u00a0It was standing room only&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/?p=95\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/surreyrhythmandblues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}