{"id":457465,"date":"2026-05-19T23:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457465\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:52:08","slug":"efdss-festive-gathering-the-journal-of-music-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457465\/","title":{"rendered":"EFDSS Festive Gathering | The Journal of Music in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate the start of December and get ready for Christmas with the English Folk Dance and Song Society\u2019s (EFDSS) Festive Gathering!<\/p>\n<p>Held at the beautiful Cecil Sharp House in London, you can enjoy this glorious celebration of all things festive from the comfort of your own home.<\/p>\n<p>The main artist will be the wonderful Cecil Sharp House Choir, who sing a capella folk and traditional songs from Britain, Ireland, and beyond, with many other fantastic artists to be announced!<\/p>\n<p>What to expect<\/p>\n<p>EFDSS holds a Festive Gathering every year, jam-packed with songs, music, dance, stories, and lots of good cheer!<\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re wrapping presents, putting up the tree, or enjoying mince pies and mulled wine with friends, this fun, folky show will get you in the mood for Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efdss.org\/cecil-sharp-house\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.efdss.org\/cecil-sharp-house<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For in-person tickets please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.efdss.org\/whats-on\/26-gigs\/16006-6-12-26-festivegathering\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.efdss.org\/whats-on\/26-gigs\/16006-6-12-26-festivegathering<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of our events are available to watch back for 72 hours. A link will be sent automatically to all ticket holders after the event has taken place and the recording has been uploaded.<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE GIG<\/p>\n<p>This event will be held live on Zoom, with a remote sound engineer for high-quality sound. Our gigs allow interaction between artists and audiences, so the artist can hear you applaud and you can even have the chance to ask them any burning questions.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are \u00a318, with the option to pay a bit less (\u00a312) or a bit more (\u00a330) depending on what is affordable for you. You only need one ticket per household.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrate the start of December and get ready for Christmas with the English Folk Dance and Song Society\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-457465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457465","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=457465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}