{"id":399257,"date":"2025-09-05T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399257\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:21:10","slug":"citadel-welcome-to-the-british-open-4barsrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399257\/","title":{"rendered":"Citadel welcome to the British Open \u2014 4barsrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Birmingham Citadel Band will offer a warm musical welcome to the 171st British Open Championship on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>If you are heading to the 171st British Open at Symphony Hall this weekend, then make sure you get there early.<\/p>\n<p>Citadel welcome<\/p>\n<p>Not only will it mean you won&#8217;t have to fret about racing to your seat for the 10.00am start, but you can also enjoy reading through your 40 page commemorative programme, study score of &#8216;Star Crossed Lovers&#8217; and some early Xmas prezzie purchases from the various trade stands, by listening to the welcoming music provided by Birmingham Citadel Band.<\/p>\n<p>Relax<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1893, the band has a long connection with the event at Symphony Hall, providing pre-contest performances almost every year since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>This year they will be led by Bandmaster Gavin Lamplough, and will play music from the pens of Paul Sharman, Kenneth Downie and Sam Creamer, to offer a relaxing welcome ahead of the contesting battles to come. <\/p>\n<p>British Open tickets:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Birmingham Citadel Band will offer a warm musical welcome to the 171st British Open Championship on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[29109,855,137759,29110,748,393,4884,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-399257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-4barsrest","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-birmingham-citadel-band","11":"tag-brass-band","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115150250656317660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399257","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=399257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}