{"id":105396,"date":"2025-05-16T05:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T05:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/105396\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T05:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T05:03:12","slug":"royal-edinburgh-military-tattoo-announces-new-zealand-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/105396\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo announces New Zealand return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is bringing its stadium show to Auckland for the first time, with two performances at Eden Park on February 19 and 21 next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Marking its 75th anniversary with this year\u2019s theme The Heroes Who Made Us, the Tattoo celebrated community and Scottish tradition through a mix of music, storytelling, and performance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The production feature more than over 1000 performers, including Scottish bagpipes, massed military bands, and international acts from New Zealand, Australia, Europe, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Tattoo last performed to New Zealand audiences in Wellington in 2015, making its return next year a long-anticipated event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">Chief executive Jason Barrett and creative director Alan Lane said the Tattoo brings people and cultures together. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cBringing the Tattoo to Auckland for the first time, as part of our 75th anniversary, is a landmark moment in our history,&#8221; said Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo CEO Jason Barrett. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;This is a celebration of the human spirit, of shared identity, and of the heroes who shape our communities. We can\u2019t wait to share this unforgettable experience with New Zealand audiences.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 23 at 12pm via Ticketek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is bringing its stadium show to Auckland for the first time, with two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[10910,748,1102,4884,269,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-105396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114515765107729027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}