{"id":32250,"date":"2025-04-19T06:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/32250\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T06:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:32:11","slug":"why-community-choirs-are-more-popular-than-ever-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/32250\/","title":{"rendered":"Why community choirs are more popular than ever in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Community choirs, where voices of friendship sing loud and proud, are more popular than ever. Among them is The Sperrin Choir in Mid-Ulster, getting ready to celebrate 50 years of uniting in song\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sperrin Choir on stage.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/40c6c316-2290-466c-b18d-66d6ff5fd072.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sperrin Choir on stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Pulling up in the car park outside the Parish Hall in Castledawson, the strains of America from West Side Story drift out into the spring evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Sperrin Choir has rarely been in finer voice. Around 50 of the members have turned out for the weekly rehearsals, a healthy number some 50 years on from its beginnings as the more classically styled The Regan Singers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community choirs, where voices of friendship sing loud and proud, are more popular than ever. Among them is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1817,17698,1144,1210,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-32250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-derry-news","9":"tag-mark-bain","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-tyrone-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114363232596729680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32250","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=32250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}