{"id":3133,"date":"2010-07-17T23:25:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T23:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=3133"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:50:45","slug":"3133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=3133","title":{"rendered":"Maria Bethania &#8211; Royal Festival Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3134 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"20091210105602_121085_large_maria-bethania\" src=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20091210105602_121085_large_maria-bethania.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What a wonderful presence on stage this woman has.\u00a0 I saw her live in Salvador da Bahia at the Centro de Convenciones in 1990 (Teatro Castro Alves was closed for refurbishment in 1989\/90), that&#8217;s a long time ago and tonight at the RFH she had lost none of her stage presence.\u00a0 Three drum kits on stage,\u00a0 all being played simultaneously, two guitars and keyboards.\u00a0 The photo above I got from Google but that was the stage set she used, the roses theme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/imagem-1748.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3155 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Imagem-1748_th\" src=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/imagem-1748_th.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There was no interval, she sang for about two hours in total, she sang the song I&#8217;d been waiting for, Reconvexo, at the end of the show before the encores.\u00a0 The last encore song was a samba, the whole audience was on its feet and dancing, what an atmosphere.\u00a0 The Festival of Brazil was a wonderful series of events for London to host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Bethania at the Royal Festival Hall July 17th 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28097,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}