{"id":598781,"date":"2026-09-13T05:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598781\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T05:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:36:12","slug":"bgt-farmers-choir-to-take-mental-health-message-on-national-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598781\/","title":{"rendered":"BGT farmers&#8217; choir to take mental health message on national tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Smith, who lives in Middleton Cheney near Banbury and has spent 45 years on the amateur stage in and around Oxfordshire, said to perform on &#8220;such iconic stages&#8221; such as the O2, the Royal Albert Hall, and when they go on tour, the London Palladium, feels &#8220;like a dream come true&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;For me personally, being an amateur performer, to appear on some of these iconic venues is just pinch me, pinch me, pinch me!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We finish [the tour] at the New Theatre Oxford, which is obviously my local big professional theatre. That will be incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on the impact the choir has had, he said: &#8220;We know we have already saved lives, which is incredibly humbling and almost tearful.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Smith, who lives in Middleton Cheney near Banbury and has spent 45 years on the amateur stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-598781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}