{"id":34063,"date":"2020-07-07T00:29:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T23:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=34063"},"modified":"2020-07-07T00:31:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T23:31:27","slug":"st-richards-hospice-virtual-woo-fest-raises-more-than-13000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/st-richards-hospice-virtual-woo-fest-raises-more-than-13000\/","title":{"rendered":"St Richard&#8217;s Hospice: Virtual Woo Fest Raises More Than \u00a313,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strichards.org.uk\/virtual-woo-fest-raises-more-than-13000-for-st-richards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.strichards.org.uk\/virtual-woo-fest-raises-more-than-13000-for-st-richards\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-34064 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/woofest20g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>An award-winning county music festival which switched to an online format because of social distancing measures has been hailed a huge success after it raised more than \u00a313,000 for a Worcestershire-based hospice.<\/p>\n<p>Woo Fest, which was streamed live to homes and gardens around Worcestershire and beyond on Saturday (4th July), featured a mix of live and pre-recorded sets from big-name performers including Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Grant Nicholas, from Feeder, and Toyah Willcox as well as local acts.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Richard \u2018Hursty\u2019 Hurst and BBC Hereford &amp; Worcester\u2019s Nina Das Gupta, the free-to-view festival has raised \u00a313,245.57 so far with music-lovers donating as they watched.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Simons, festival organiser, said: &#8220;We\u2019ve been blown away by everyone\u2019s response to a virtual festival here in Worcestershire. We had 92 individual musicians in 24 sets \u2013 across a range of genres \u2013 keen to give our wonderful county a brilliant day and support the care St Richard\u2019s provides locally at the same time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strichards.org.uk\/virtual-woo-fest-raises-more-than-13000-for-st-richards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>strichards.org.uk<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award-winning county music festival which switched to an online format because of social distancing measures has been hailed a huge success after it raised more than \u00a313,000 for a Worcestershire-based hospice. Woo Fest, which was streamed live to homes and gardens around Worcestershire and beyond on Saturday (4th July), featured a mix of live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2240,27],"tags":[1881,2497,2496],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34071,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34063\/revisions\/34071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}