{"id":1536,"date":"2012-05-21T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T10:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2012-05-21T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T10:34:33","slug":"jamie-mc-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2012\/05\/21\/jamie-mc-donald\/","title":{"rendered":"The wonderful music of Jamie Mc Donald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have seen him on the streets of Sofia lately: red-haired, cool dude, with an acoustic guitar in his hands, and a strong voice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2012\/05\/jamie_mcdonald_in_sofia_img_7796.jpg\" title=\"{dp} Jamie McDonald\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2012\/05\/jamie_mcdonald_in_sofia_img_7796.th.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie Mc Donald, musician\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He travels, plays and sings for his own pleasure (it seems). He&#8217;s now in Bulgaria and you can go and listen to his music in the Sofia music clubs &#8212; but sometimes on the street, too.<\/p>\n<p>First time we heard him, it was when we were walking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.molif.com\/en\/\">Ani<\/a> on Vitosha street, in the Winter. Two days ago we heard him sing again, on almost the same place. We stopped to listen for a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;then, after his last song, I asked him, where&#8217;s he from. Once we knew Jamie is from Ireland, it was quite obvious we&#8217;ll ask him to sing us some Irish song, since we&#8217;re big fans of Irish music!<\/p>\n<p>So, the next song is &#8220;by fans&#8217; request&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/End7dir_JeU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Jamie Mc Donald: Fiddlers&#8217;s Green (shot with a Canon S5 IS camera)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jamie Mc Donald has an official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ManFromCarlow\">Facebook page<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/jamiemcmusic\/videos\">YouTube channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jamie-mc-donald\">http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jamie-mc-donald<\/a><br \/>\nyou can listen to a few tracks from his next album, <em>The Way It Was<\/em> (where he performs with Boyana Zhelyazkova, violin). I like the music, a lot!<\/p>\n<p>In the next few weeks you&#8217;ll be able to hear him sing in one of the Sofia clubs (maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/McCarthys-irish-pub\/218993548124393\">Mc Carthy&#8217;s<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.programata.bg\/?p=69&#038;c=1&#038;id=134&#038;l=1\">Swingin&#8217; Hall<\/a>)&#8230; or again, on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Stop and listen for a while, if you happen to &#8220;bump&#8221; into him somewhere. You never know &#8212; maybe Jamie will soon leave for Ireland&#8230; or for the next destination on his travel list?&#8230; :)<\/p>\n<p><em>PS Thanks for the music, Jamie! It was so nice meeting you! :-)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have seen him on the streets of Sofia lately: red-haired, cool dude, with an acoustic guitar in his hands, and a strong voice. He travels, plays and sings for his own pleasure (it seems). He&#8217;s now in Bulgaria and you can go and listen to his music in the Sofia music clubs &#8212;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}