{"id":5820,"date":"2014-05-20T12:26:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2014-05-22T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T13:49:39","slug":"helping-the-homeless-big-band-will-be-supporting-porchlight-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2014\/05\/20\/helping-the-homeless-big-band-will-be-supporting-porchlight-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping the homeless: Big Band will be supporting Porchlight next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of next month&#8217;s <strong>Summer Music Week<\/strong> extravaganza, we are especially delighted to be supporting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.porchlight.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Porchlight<\/strong><\/a>, the local charity providing help for homeless people across Kent. The curtain-raiser to Summer Music Week will see the University Big Band, under the baton of the ever-youthful <strong>Ian Swatman<\/strong>, playing on the Bandstand at Deal on Sunday 8 June at 2.30pm \u00a0in support of the charity, which this year is celebrating its fortieth birthday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5821\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5821\" alt=\"A great Deal of fun...\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2014\/05\/Deal_Bandstand_Sunday-300x200.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"144\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A great Deal of fun&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Your loyal correspondent writes more about the event over on the Porchlight website <a title=\"Big Band helps Porchlight celebrate its fortieth year\" href=\"http:\/\/www.porchlight.org.uk\/2014\/05\/20\/big-band-event-will-help-porchlight-celebrate-its-fortieth-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2014\/05\/20\/helping-the-homeless-big-band-will-be-supporting-porchlight-next-month\/&amp;t=Helping the homeless: Big Band will be supporting Porchlight next month' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Helping the homeless: Big Band will be supporting Porchlight next month%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2014\/05\/20\/helping-the-homeless-big-band-will-be-supporting-porchlight-next-month\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2014\/05\/20\/helping-the-homeless-big-band-will-be-supporting-porchlight-next-month\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2014\/05\/20\/helping-the-homeless-big-band-will-be-supporting-porchlight-next-month\/&amp;title=Helping the homeless: Big Band will be supporting Porchlight next month' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2014\/05\/20\/helping-the-homeless-big-band-will-be-supporting-porchlight-next-month\/&amp;title=Helping the homeless: Big Band will be supporting Porchlight next month' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of next month&#8217;s Summer Music Week extravaganza, we are especially delighted to be supporting Porchlight, the local charity providing help for homeless people across Kent. The curtain-raiser to Summer Music Week will see the University Big Band, under the baton of the ever-youthful Ian Swatman, playing on the Bandstand at Deal on Sunday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2014\/05\/20\/helping-the-homeless-big-band-will-be-supporting-porchlight-next-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Helping the homeless: Big Band will be supporting Porchlight next month<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1110],"tags":[969,14562,91607,1359,139502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5823,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions\/5823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}