{"id":21385,"date":"2020-12-02T15:18:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T15:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=21385"},"modified":"2022-04-03T18:09:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T17:09:30","slug":"christmas-chart-success-for-verwood-choir-vocalize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2020\/12\/christmas-chart-success-for-verwood-choir-vocalize\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas chart success for Verwood choir Vocalize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verwood choir Vocalize has enjoyed a spell at number 2 in the iTunes Chart with the Christmas song, Be Here This Christmas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The group is raising money for charity and has written, recorded and sung the original song for Shelter. <\/p>\n<p>A video has also been produced to go with the song, which is about celebrating the holidays despite all that has happened. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about being with others and rejoicing in the love and connection we&#8217;ve missed with our family and friends so much during lockdown, by showing how we value one another.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/vocalizechoir?fbclid=IwAR2sEvXiE4bUFGPsRGgtg2D-Sgi7FGqeKxfw1DjeZ-1gopejqDLrLIPrm30\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">JustGiving page<\/a> has attracted almost double its target, with around \u00a32000 raised so far at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Such an unapologetically Christmassy programme tonight <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvmeridian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@itvmeridian<\/a> \ud83c\udf84\ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to the festivities was my self-shoot debut featuring a blummin\u2019 marvellous choir from Verwood who\u2019re rocketing up the iTunes Christmas Chart in aid of  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shelter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Shelter<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Watch it below! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iWh0mhYtjy\">pic.twitter.com\/iWh0mhYtjy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Will Walters (@_WillWalters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_WillWalters\/status\/1334939533637464064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FVocalizeChoirVerwood%2Fvideos%2F987185421805386%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verwood choir Vocalize has enjoyed a spell at number 2 in the iTunes Chart with the Christmas song, Be Here This Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-21385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-vocalize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36951,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21385\/revisions\/36951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}