{"id":506779,"date":"2026-03-01T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506779\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:49:08","slug":"west-kelownas-music-in-the-park-honoured-with-arts-and-entertainment-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506779\/","title":{"rendered":"West Kelowna\u2019s Music in the Park honoured with arts and entertainment award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concert series awarded
\n\"Mayor<\/p>\n

Photo: City of West Kelowna<\/p>\n

Mayor Gord Milsom receives Arts and Entertainment Award for Music in the Park at the Annual Key Business Awards hosted by the Greater Westside Board of Trade.<\/p>\n

Mayor Gord Milsom accepted the Arts and Entertainment Award on behalf of Music in the Park at the 24th Annual Key Business Awards on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The award was presented by the Greater Westside Board of Trade, recognizing the popular summer concert series organized by the City of West Kelowna.<\/p>\n

\u201cMusic in the Park is a success because it brings our community together to celebrate local talent and create joyful, memorable summer evenings for our community,\u201d said West Kelowna Mayor Gord Milsom.<\/p>\n

\u201cA huge congratulations to everyone involved including fans, performers, staff, volunteers, partners and sponsors whose passion and devotion continue to make West Kelowna a vibrant, connected, and joyful place to live and truly the place to be!\u201d<\/p>\n

The free Friday night concerts are held at the Annette Beaudreau Amphitheatre in Memorial Park throughout the summer.<\/p>\n

The 2025 season featured a range of performances, from local singer-songwriter Lucas Wentworth to tribute bands such as Lips \u2013 The Ultimate Rolling Stones Experience and The Hip Replacements. A record 11,687 people attended the concerts in 2025, compared to 6,561 the previous year.<\/p>\n

The City said planning is already underway for the 2026 summer concert season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concert series awarded Photo: City of West Kelowna Mayor Gord Milsom receives Arts and Entertainment Award for Music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-506779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}