{"id":1415,"date":"2015-07-10T14:03:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2015-07-10T14:03:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:03:34","slug":"under-siege-at-rochester-castle-showcases-medway-music-on-sunday-19-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2015\/07\/10\/under-siege-at-rochester-castle-showcases-medway-music-on-sunday-19-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Siege at Rochester Castle showcases Medway Music on Sunday 19 July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2015\/07\/undersiege.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1411\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2015\/07\/undersiege-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"undersiege\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2015\/07\/undersiege-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2015\/07\/undersiege.jpg 679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Young musicians and performers will be showcasing their talents for the eighth year running in Rochester Castle Gardens \u2013 on the same stage that famous names like\u00a0<em>Status Quo<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Peter Andre<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Blue<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Billy Ocean<\/em>\u00a0will have been performing\u00a0to huge crowds\u00a0only days before.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Medway\u2019s Festival of Music, Under Siege offers the opportunity for local gifted performers\u00a0aged from 13 \u2013 19 the chance to perform on the Castle Concerts\u2019 stage to as many as 4,500 people, with music that encompasses a range of genres that includes rock, pop, and classical.<\/p>\n<p>The gates to Rochester Castle gardens will open at 12 noon on the day and the show, which is FREE to attend, will begin at 1pm and end at around 3.30pm.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alan Mash<\/em>, from the School of Music and Fine Art at the Chatham Dockyard campus of University of Kent said:\u00a0<em>\u201cI am thrilled to be involved in Under Siege again this year &#8211; it is one of the highlights of the Medway Festival of Music.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Under Siege is organised by Medway Council in partnership with the University of Kent and MidKent College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young musicians and performers will be showcasing their talents for the eighth year running in Rochester Castle Gardens \u2013 on the same stage that famous names like\u00a0Status Quo,\u00a0Peter Andre,\u00a0Blue\u00a0and\u00a0Billy Ocean\u00a0will have been performing\u00a0to huge crowds\u00a0only days before. Part of Medway\u2019s Festival of Music, Under Siege offers the opportunity for local gifted performers\u00a0aged from 13 \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2015\/07\/10\/under-siege-at-rochester-castle-showcases-medway-music-on-sunday-19-july\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Under Siege at Rochester Castle showcases Medway Music on Sunday 19 July<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81427,1252,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}