{"id":3077,"date":"2016-05-03T20:03:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T20:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2016-05-03T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T20:03:58","slug":"a-fundraising-concert-in-bolivia-huge-thanks-to-long-term-alalay-supporter-michael-jones-world-class-cellist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=3077","title":{"rendered":"A fundraising concert in Bolivia &#8211; huge thanks to long-term Alalay supporter Michael Jones (world-class cellist)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Falalay.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D3077&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p>We were really thrilled to hear from Alalay that world-class cellist Michael Jones has once again chosen to support our work with Bolivian street children.<\/p>\n<p>Michael first visited Alalay in 2012, where he played a magical concert to our children &#8211; the vast majority of whom had never even seen a cello in real life, let alone been allowed to touch one! He followed up on this visit by offering his incredible talent at a fundraising concert back in Bristol, where we raised over \u00c2\u00a36,000 in one night! Read more about the 2013 concert and see some photos <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1621\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael recently returned to Santa Cruz, and played a fundraising concert in Bolivia at the reknowned Lorca Cafe, before joining Alalay for &#8220;street work&#8221; (going and speaking with children still living on the streets, to encourage them to visit Alalay when they are ready). See a video below of Michael&#8217;s wonderful playing &#8211; he has such amazing talent and we are so pleased with his continuing support of our work &#8211; our very sincere thanks to you Michael!<\/p>\n<div class=\"ytp-html5-clipboard\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SGJBSjLXQ3c\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were really thrilled to hear from Alalay that world-class cellist Michael Jones has once again chosen to support our work with Bolivian street children. Michael first visited Alalay in 2012, where he played a magical concert to our children &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=3077\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3080,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}