{"id":58223,"date":"2019-12-19T09:06:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=58223"},"modified":"2019-12-18T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:38:46","slug":"the-essential-advent-calendar-december-19-wendi-harriotts-simply-christmas-is-filled-with-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/12\/the-essential-advent-calendar-december-19-wendi-harriotts-simply-christmas-is-filled-with-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Advent Calendar: December 19 &#8211; Wendi Harriott\u2019s \u2018Simply Christmas\u2019 Is Filled With Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Door number 19 sees the wonderful Wendi Harriott, and her Christmas album, &#8216;Simply Christmas&#8217;.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We first met Wendi a few weeks back when she sang support for Rebecca Ferguson at Boisdale, Canary Wharf, and we loved her sweet, soulful voice. So when we realised she had released an entire Christmas album, we had to add it to our Essential Advent Calendar!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Simply Christmas&#8217; comprises 9 beautiful Christmas tracks, sung in Wendi&#8217;s inimitable style. Our favourite is &#8216;O Holy Night&#8217; &#8211; which is yours?<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Simply Christmas\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3LkgEtObvKNqQUvJk4nFia?si=R-9ahzPSTaavfILGWUpgsw&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wendi might be familiar to people from her performance on The Voice in 2018, where she wowed everyone with her rendition of &#8216;Satisfaction&#8217;, made famous by The Rolling Stones. Aside from Rebecca Ferguson, Wendi has provided backing vocals for the likes of Jennifer Hudson, Rod Stewart, and The Killers, and also works as a singing coach. Wendi can currently be seen in action as The Empress Of China at Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks, in their Aladdin Panto. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenoakspanto.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> for further information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find Wendi Harriott online on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendiHarriott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wendiharriott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Door number 19 sees the wonderful Wendi Harriott, and her Christmas album, &#8216;Simply Christmas&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58213,"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":[23877,470,3938,23876,4831,23875,3787,23710],"class_list":["post-58223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","tag-aladdin","tag-christmas","tag-essential-advent-calendar","tag-pantomime","tag-sevenoaks","tag-simply-christmas","tag-the-essential-advent-calendar","tag-wendi-harriott"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-f95","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57733,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/11\/rebecca-ferguson-wows-full-house-at-boisdale-after-minor-hiccup\/","url_meta":{"origin":58223,"position":0},"title":"Rebecca Ferguson Wows Full House At Boisdale After Minor Hiccup","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"28\/11\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Rebecca Ferguson, ably supported by her 3 piece band and wonderful backing singer Wendi Harriott, wowed the audience on Tuesday night during her performance at Boisdale, Cabot Square, Canary Wharf.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Concerts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Concerts","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/concerts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/F6948B8D-B443-4EE6-92DC-072026F1DC25.jpeg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/F6948B8D-B443-4EE6-92DC-072026F1DC25.jpeg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/F6948B8D-B443-4EE6-92DC-072026F1DC25.jpeg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/F6948B8D-B443-4EE6-92DC-072026F1DC25.jpeg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":66313,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-december-18-meghan-trainor-releases-first-christmas-album-a-very-trainor-christmas\/","url_meta":{"origin":58223,"position":1},"title":"Essential Advent Calendar: December 18 &#8211; 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