{"id":11032,"date":"2015-03-28T00:28:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T00:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11032"},"modified":"2015-03-27T09:50:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T09:50:32","slug":"lichfield-festival-coming-back-with-free-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/lichfield-festival-coming-back-with-free-events","title":{"rendered":"Lichfield Festival coming back with plenty of free events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">The Lichfield Festival will be returning, to be hosted at venues across Lichfield, the Staffordshire city, from 3<sup>rd<\/sup> to 12<sup>th<\/sup> July. Considered as one of UK&#8217;s most eclectic multi-arts festivals, it has over 70 different events, spread in about 10 days, attracting world-class international and national performers. The Staffordshire city will also have lots of free events and activities apt for the whole family.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Events include from City Saturday &#8216;open house&#8217; to the cathedral lawn hosted Vintage Tea Party and a Twycross Zoo supported baby elephant parade. The Lichfield festival will offer something for all ages and tastes, plus <a title=\"Lichfield Festival coming back with plenty of free events\" href=\"http:\/\/nativemonster.com\/attractions\/things-to-do\/festivals\/lichfield-festival-returns-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\">free events<\/a>. A special adaptation by Anthony Krane of Mozart&#8217;s famous &#8216;The Magic Flute&#8217; will open the festival on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> July, Friday. David Mathews is the composer in residence.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Find here literature, comedy, theatre, dance, orchestral music, jazz, visual effects, etc. Some other offerings include- chamber music concerts by the Sacconi Quartet (this year\u2019s artists in residence), stand-up from comedians Mark Watson and Marcus Brigstocke and talks from Bill Oddie, Philip Walling and Wedy Cope, all acclaimed authors. Sonia Stevenson, new artistic director, said the Lichfield Festival has a long and proud history. This year&#8217;s offering is as eclectic as ever, she added. For more information visit the website- lichfieldfestival.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lichfield Festival will be returning, to be hosted at venues across Lichfield, the Staffordshire city, from 3rd to 12th July. Considered as one of UK&#8217;s most eclectic multi-arts festivals, it has over 70 different events, spread in about 10 days, attracting world-class international and national performers. The Staffordshire city will also have lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11034,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions\/11034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}