{"id":149052,"date":"2017-04-15T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/149052\/born-to-rock-with-benrock\/"},"modified":"2017-04-15T07:32:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T05:32:30","slug":"born-to-rock-with-benrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2017\/04\/15\/born-to-rock-with-benrock\/","title":{"rendered":"Born to rock with BenRock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something exciting is coming to town, so get ready to rock.<\/p>\n<p>What is it? A rocking good day of music called BenRock.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>BenRock is the brainchild of two Benoni bands that was conceived in late 2015 &#8211; by the end of January last year, The Burning and Monkey Finger had performed at the first show which was a great success.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural event was held at Old Benonians Football Club and it was attended by nearly 500 people.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>As the popularity of BenRock grew, the organisers saw the need to showcase more bands who have the same drive and dedication to local music and thus a bigger venue was required \u2013 BenRock is managed by the bands for the bands and aims to placate the already rock music starved local community.<\/p>\n<p>BenRock is set to take place in Germiston on May 6 at The Beer Co and Runway Beach Bar, situated in Dakota Crescent, near Rand Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The venue is the ideal environment for the magic that is good ol\u2019 rock \u2019n roll.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BENROCK PROMO VID\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/arEIRZNQ9Ho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is a diverse group of musicians performing at the show and it promises to be a musical treat for the whole family \u2013 from a beautiful acoustic performance and classic blues rock, to interesting instrumentals and the finale of hard and heavy rock.<\/p>\n<p>The proceeds from the show go directly to the artists and a small entrance fee will be charged, with children under 12 free.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets will be available at the door.<\/p>\n<p>There will be plenty of parking and icy cold beverages available to quench any thirst and the bands and musicians are looking forward to seeing you there.<\/p>\n<p>Patrons to the event can look forward to seeing Anubis, Kings of Improg (KOI), Lauren Wanda, Monkey Finger, The Burning, The Color Blew and Winston Slide.<\/p>\n<p>BenRock kicks off at noon until late.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148175\/time-to-rock-at-the-big-top-arena\/\">Time to rock at the Big Top Arena<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148463\/dancers-set-to-get-your-pulse-racing\/\">Dancers set to get your pulse racing<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='c5aee9e55a21ed8ec66281b0825ee808'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t miss out on BenRock set to take to the stage soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":149053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[6139,14276,972,979,969,2734,974,2522,9821,14277],"class_list":["post-149052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-bands","tag-benrock","tag-entertainment-2","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-music","tag-music-festival","tag-rock-music","tag-the-beer-co-and-runway-beach-bar"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Bands","BenRock","entertainment","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","music","music festival","Rock music","The Beer Co and Runway Beach Bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}