{"id":209871,"date":"2025-12-25T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209871\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:57:09","slug":"listen-back-local-musicians-new-xmas-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209871\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Back: Local musicians&#8217; new Xmas song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time to put us in the mood ! This beautiful new song; &#8216;Northern Star&#8217; written by Don Mescall and is performed by Music Generation Cavan \/ Monaghan funded through Creative Cavan.<\/p>\n<p>The track was recorded at Quivy Church Studio, Don&#8217;s home and creative space in Co Cavan and features an aray of local musicians.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Star celebrates human kindness, love, and the power of connection &#8211; a timeless message that feels especially meaningful during the festive season.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to the awarding winning song writer and producer who is based in Belturbet about the new Christmas song and how it was originated:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just in time to put us in the mood ! This beautiful new song; &#8216;Northern Star&#8217; written by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,109491],"class_list":["post-209871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-xmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}