{"id":629206,"date":"2026-09-19T04:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629206\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T04:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:06:21","slug":"tributes-paid-to-country-music-legend-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629206\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes paid to country music legend this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tom Weekend is kicking off tonight in Oram to honour what would have been the 90th birthday of the country music legend.<\/p>\n<p>John Glenn, Damian Davis and Thomas McBride Junior are among those taking to the stage as part of the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Oram man Carl Laverty grew up with Big Tom and was one of his closest friends.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been telling Joe Finnegan about the role he played in helping to launch the singer&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>Country music superstar Margo O&#8217;Donnell is also set to perform in the village this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s been talking to Joe about what it was like to perform with Big Tom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Tom Weekend is kicking off tonight in Oram to honour what would have been the 90th birthday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-629206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629206","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=629206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}