{"id":654445,"date":"2026-05-07T20:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654445\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:26:35","slug":"vancouver-folk-music-festival-reveals-details-of-its-2026-mainstage-lineup-stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654445\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Folk Music Festival reveals details of its 2026 Mainstage lineup \u2014 Stir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The last night of the festival, Sunday, July 19, is all about hybrid sounds. It all launches with the Vancouver debut of Barcelona\u2019s Maruja Lim\u00f3n whose music blends Catalan traditions with influences drawn from flamenco, pop, and Cuban son. Then it\u2019s time for Valerie June\u2019s unique mixture of Americana, folk, gospel, soul, and blues. She calls it \u201corganic moonshine roots music\u201d, and that\u2019s good enough for us. Then BIM (Benin International Musical) will close the festivities by welding rock and rap to traditional voodoo rhythms. There\u2019s a ceremonial element to this Beninese collective\u2019s music, which makes each performance part dance party and part ritual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last night of the festival, Sunday, July 19, is all about hybrid sounds. It all launches with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-654445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654445","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=654445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}