{"id":23,"date":"2016-08-24T03:13:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T03:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/?p=23"},"modified":"2018-10-17T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:28:32","slug":"crooning-at-christmas-on-national-tour-this-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Crooning at Christmas celebrates 14 Years this December"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1537371934806_97541\" class=\"sqs-block button-block sqs-block-button\" data-block-type=\"53\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1539789162198_104\" class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1539789162198_103\" class=\"sqs-block-button-container--center\" data-alignment=\"center\" data-button-size=\"medium\">Liam O\u2019Brien\u2019s seasonal celebration of the swing era,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dolans.ie\/gigs-events-live-music-listings\/2018\/9\/19\/crooning-at-christmas\"><strong>Crooning at Christmas<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>is one of Limerick&#8217;s favourite nights out during the city&#8217;s festive season.\u00a0Now an annual sell out at Dolan&#8217;s Warehouse, he celebrates the show&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>fourteenth\u00a0<\/strong>year in Limerick on Sunday December 23rd\u00a0&#8211; with advance booking essential.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-4555121b07c966a649a4\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\">\n<div class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<p>The former Emmerdale star is also\u00a0one of Ireland&#8217;s leading exponents of the classic crooning style &#8211; inspired by his West End leading role playing Dean Martin in &#8220;The Rat Pack &#8211; Live from Las Vegas&#8221; which toured the UK, Europe and right across America. He most recently debuted his new show SINATRA to great acclaim &#8211; on the 20th anniversary of the iconic singer right here at the Warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>He regularly performs across Ireland with his own Million Dollar Swing Band, the Kings of Swing in the UK and most recently the renowned Black Magic Big Band in Galway. He has sung at the prestigious Roundhouse in London and a packed to the rafters Royal Albert Hall for \u2018Carols with the Stars\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Crooning at Christmas features classic songs such as Baby It\u2019s Cold Outside, White Christmas, Let It Snow and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas along with newer tunes by artists such as Harry Connick Jr and Michael Bubl\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole will relish the swing sounds of the Million Dollar Swing Band &#8211; led by musical director Peter Hanagan.<\/p>\n<p>For this year&#8217;s concert, Liam is supported by West End star Shonagh Daly (Les Mis\u00e9rables) with more special guests to be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are priced at \u20ac19 (including \u20ac1 venue booking fee) and are on sale via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dolans.ie\/gigs-events-live-music-listings\/2018\/9\/19\/crooning-at-christmas\">Dolan&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doors are 7.30pm &#8211; with show starting 8.30pm sharp on Sunday December 23rd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liam O\u2019Brien\u2019s seasonal celebration of the swing era,\u00a0Crooning at Christmas\u00a0is one of Limerick&#8217;s favourite nights out during the city&#8217;s festive season.\u00a0Now an annual sell out at Dolan&#8217;s Warehouse, he celebrates the show&#8217;s\u00a0fourteenth\u00a0year in Limerick on Sunday December 23rd\u00a0&#8211; with advance booking essential. The former Emmerdale star is also\u00a0one of Ireland&#8217;s leading exponents of the classic <a href=\"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/?p=23\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Crooning at Christmas celebrates 14 Years this December<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,3,4],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-crooning","tag-swing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liamobrien.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}