{"id":759,"date":"2013-03-04T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T13:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2013-03-04T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T13:27:32","slug":"2013-barbados-celtic-festival-will-have-a-heavy-gaelic-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/2013-barbados-celtic-festival-will-have-a-heavy-gaelic-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Barbados Celtic Festival will have a heavy Gaelic influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados is once again preparing for the annual Celtic Festival, with this year&#8217;s celebrations set to have a strong Gaelic theme.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_634\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-634\" class=\"size-full wp-image-634\" alt=\"Piping on the Barbados boardwalk!\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/celtic-festival-barbados-boardwalk-piper.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/celtic-festival-barbados-boardwalk-piper.jpg 450w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/celtic-festival-barbados-boardwalk-piper-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piping on the Barbados boardwalk!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 2013 festival will kick off with Scottish piping on the south coast boardwalk with the shimmering Caribbean Sea as the backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>Event highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Scotland <\/span><\/span> piping quartet <strong>Seudan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Dining events with Scottish chef <strong>Paul Wedgwood <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ireland&#8217;s top accordion player <strong>Alan Kelly<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Exciting fiddling and piping from the <strong>MacKenzie brothers<\/strong> from Cape Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The festival runs from \u00a0<strong>May 23rd to 29th<\/strong>.\u00a0 Get more info. on dates &amp; performances at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticfestivalbarbados.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.celticfestivalbarbados.com\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The festival celebrates the links between the beautiful Caribbean island of Barbados and the Celtic countries &#8211; Scotland, Ireland and Wales. When sugar was booming in Barbados in the 1700&#8217;s, several people from these countries came to live in Barbados as &#8216;indentured servants&#8217;, working on the sugar plantations for a set number of years before gaining their freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados is once again preparing for the annual Celtic Festival, with this year&#8217;s celebrations set to have a strong Gaelic theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,8],"tags":[229,127,181],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}