{"id":52387,"date":"2010-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/santiago-and-its-typical-music\/"},"modified":"2010-05-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"santiago-and-its-typical-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/05\/04\/santiago-and-its-typical-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago and its &#8220;typical music&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo and Punta Cana may have their Hard Rock Cafes and large venues for foreign artists from the world over, but Santiago crowds prefer their &#8220;typical music&#8221; halls. In the past these were thatched roof venues, but today increasing demand for the fast-paced music dance halls has attracted investors who have built air-conditioned palaces with capacity for crowds of more than 1,000, while trying to preserve their country-like feel. <\/p>\n<p>Check out Monte Bar, Rancho Tipico Las Colinas, Andy Ranch, Las Vegas and the Casino in Villa Gonzalez where this traditional music is kept alive. Admission ranges from RD$200 to RD$600 depending on the featured band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo and Punta Cana may have their Hard Rock Cafes and large venues for foreign artists from the world over, but Santiago crowds prefer their &#8220;typical music&#8221; halls. In the past these were thatched roof venues, but today increasing demand for the fast-paced music dance halls has attracted investors who have built air-conditioned palaces &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/05\/04\/santiago-and-its-typical-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}