{"id":906752,"date":"2026-09-26T23:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906752\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T23:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:32:27","slug":"a-big-name-in-rock-plays-unique-show-for-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906752\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Name in Rock Plays Unique Show\u2014for Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Rock halls and stadiums are one thing. Keyboard legend and former Yes member Rick Wakeman just added 150 rescued bears to his list of audiences. Wakeman, 77, set up a Yamaha grand piano inside Animals Asia&#8217;s sanctuary in Vietnam&#8217;s Tam Dao national park, performing new pieces he composed for the moon bears living there, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/sep\/24\/rick-wakeman-vietnam-bears-moon-sanctuary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a>. (See a video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0ZoHND9isbI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.) The longtime animal-welfare advocate aimed to spotlight the illegal bear bile trade, in which bile is extracted from bears&#8217; gall bladders for use in traditional medicine. The animals are kept in brutal conditions all the while. &#8220;We&#8217;re here really to celebrate the rescued bears &#8230; (but) it&#8217;s also a reminder that there are still a lot of bears that are in captivity that need to be saved,&#8221; wrote Wakeman, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/09\/25\/entertainment\/rick-wakeman-concert-vietnamese-bears-scli-intl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Rock halls and stadiums are one thing. Keyboard legend and former Yes member Rick Wakeman just added&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[23792,64,63,4946,128,365074,5611,338],"class_list":["post-906752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-welfare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-concert","tag-science","tag-uplifting-news","tag-vietnam","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}