{"id":56394,"date":"2015-04-16T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ae3e60e35dbae7f8bc9a08657c1849a9"},"modified":"2015-04-16T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T13:11:00","slug":"news-story-star-studded-concert-announced-to-celebrate-anniversary-of-ve-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56394","title":{"rendered":"News story: Star-studded concert announced to celebrate anniversary of VE Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The concert, taking place at London\u2019s Horse Guards Parade on Saturday 9 May, will be a focal point of the national celebrations for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/ve-day-70th-anniversary\">70th anniversary of VE Day<\/a>. This one-off event will be broadcast that night on BBC One TV and on Radio 2. <\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Chris Evans, this star-studded concert will include performances influenced by the era from actor Adrian Lester, comedian and presenter Alexander Armstrong, Britain\u2019s favourite tenor Alfie Boe, actor Bernard Cribbins, boyband Blue, Britain\u2019s Got Talent winners dance troupe Diversity, musical theatre\u2019s leading lady Elaine Paige, hotly tipped jazz vocalist Gregory Porter, Dads Army\u2019s Ian Lavender, R&amp;B singer Jamelia, stage, screen and TV star Jane Horrocks, UK\u2019s biggest mezzo soprano Katherine Jenkins, pop starlet Pixie Lott, one of the best voices to come out of the X Factor singer Rebecca Ferguson, legendary rock band Status Quo and four couples from top entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for VE Day 70: A Party To Remember are now on sale.<\/p>\n<p>To book tickets log on to <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livenation.co.uk\/artist\/ve-day-70-a-party-to-remember-tickets\">Live Nation<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.co.uk\/event\/37004E89B31C4E59\">Ticketmaster<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Nation and BBC, in partnership with The Royal British Legion present VE Day 70: A Party to Remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56400,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56394\/revisions\/56400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}