{"id":16626,"date":"2015-12-19T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T09:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=16626"},"modified":"2015-12-19T09:38:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T09:38:39","slug":"essential-advent-calendar-adrian-david-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-adrian-david-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Advent Calendar: Adrian David &#8211; &#8216;Christmas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15956\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-adrian-david-christmas\/advent-calendar-20\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/advent-calendar-20.png?fit=1480%2C1182&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1480,1182\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"advent calendar 20\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/advent-calendar-20.png?fit=640%2C511&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15956\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/advent-calendar-20.png?resize=640%2C511&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"advent calendar 20\" width=\"640\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Three of Welsh songwriter Adrian David&#8217;s songs have made it to the semi-finals of the prestigious UK Songwriting Contest. One of them, &#8216;Christmas&#8217;, is behind door number 19 of our Essential Advent Calendar.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16627\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-adrian-david-christmas\/adrian-david-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Adrian-David-1.jpg?fit=320%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"320,240\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Adrian David 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Adrian-David-1.jpg?fit=320%2C240&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16627\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Adrian-David-1.jpg?resize=320%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Adrian David 1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writing and producing in a wide range of genres, including R&#8217;n&#8217;B, Dance, Pop, Celtic, World and Rock, Adrian has collaborated with a number of artists across the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adrian composed the music for &#8216;Athena and the Dream Catcher&#8217;, a musical staged in Swansea in 2014. He also participated in WOMEX, the World Music Expo, held in Cardiff, in 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out Adrian David&#8217;s music on his <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/songman777\/sets\/songs\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud<\/a>, which also includes his three UK Songwriting Contest semi-finalist songs, &#8216;You Blow Me Away&#8217;, &#8216;Universe&#8217;, and our Advent choice for today, &#8216;Christmas&#8217;. You can find Adrian on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adrian.david.77\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Songman7\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F231109691&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;visual=true&#038;show_comments=true&#038;color=false&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Christmas&#8217;, by Welsh songwriter Adrian David, is our song behind today&#8217;s Essential Advent Calendar door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3768],"tags":[3991,3993,1499,470,3938,304,3995,3787,3992,2355,3994],"class_list":["post-16626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","tag-adrian-david","tag-athena-and-the-dream-catcher","tag-cardiff","tag-christmas","tag-essential-advent-calendar","tag-songwriter","tag-swansea","tag-the-essential-advent-calendar","tag-uk-songwriting-contest","tag-wales","tag-womex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-4ka","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16705,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-essential-advent-playlist\/","url_meta":{"origin":16626,"position":0},"title":"Essential Advent Calendar: Essential Advent Playlist","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"25\/12\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! 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