{"id":130863,"date":"2024-03-11T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=130863"},"modified":"2024-03-11T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:00:32","slug":"mike-oldfields-tubular-bells-50th-anniversary-tour-comes-to-tallinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/mike-oldfields-tubular-bells-50th-anniversary-tour-comes-to-tallinn\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mike Oldfield&#8217;s &#8216;Tubular Bells&#8217; 50th Anniversary Tour Comes to Tallinn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Celebrated English composer <strong>Mike Oldfield&#8217;s<\/strong> iconic &#8220;Tubular Bells&#8221; album turns 50 years this year. To mark the anniversary, there is a global tour. The next stop of which will be in Tallinn this evening, March 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">At the age of 17, Mike Oldfield composed &#8220;Tubular Bells&#8221;, the best-selling instrumental album of all time. The opening track of which featured on the soundtrack of the legendary horror film &#8220;The Exorcist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Under the direction of Oldfield&#8217;s longtime collaborator <strong>Robin A Smith,<\/strong> an impressive ensemble will perform tracks from &#8220;Tubular Bells&#8221;, as well as other timeless hits such as &#8220;Moonlight Shadow&#8221;, &#8220;Summit Day&#8221;, &#8220;Family Man&#8221; and &#8220;Ommadawn\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAlong with the musicians, it\u2019s a real privilege to be performing this extraordinary work. It\u2019s as fresh today as it was when Mike created it in 1971 &#8211; and I love having the chance to bring it to new audiences as well as those who, like me, are still captivated by it whenever they hear it,&#8221; shared Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Tickets for the concert this evening (March 11) at the Alexela Concert Hall in Tallinn are still available to buy at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piletilevi.ee\/eng\/tickets\/muusika\/mike-oldfieldi-albumi-tubular-bells-50-juubelikontsert-410710\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Piletilevi<\/span><\/a>.<span class=\"s2\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Celebrated English composer Mike Oldfield&#8217;s iconic &#8220;Tubular Bells&#8221; album turns 50 years this year. To mark the anniversary, there &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":130864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[21239,21240,21241,21242,13233,21237,21238],"class_list":["post-130863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-tubular-bells-tour","tag-tubular-bells-50","tag-mike-oldfield","tag-robin-a-smith","tag-concert-2","tag-tubular-bells","tag-tubular-bells-tallinn"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130869,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130863\/revisions\/130869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}