{"id":701955,"date":"2026-05-29T17:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701955\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:03:10","slug":"matchbox-twenty-returning-to-churchill-park-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701955\/","title":{"rendered":"Matchbox Twenty Returning to Churchill Park Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/matchbox-20-twenty-rob-thomas-churchill-park.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Matchbox Twenty Returning to Churchill Park Music Festival\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matchbox Twenty front man Rob Thomas performing at the Churchill Park Music Festival in 2022 (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Matchbox Twenty will be at the Churchill Park Music Festival this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The rock band will be headlining the Saturday, July 25th show.<\/p>\n<p>The band is no stranger to Churchill Park as they headlined the inaugural festival back in 2022, playing to a packed crowd with hits such as 3 a.m. and Unwell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/churchill-park-music-festival-2022-crowd-matchbox-twenty-20.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212173\" class=\"size-full wp-image-212173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/churchill-park-music-festival-2022-crowd-matchbox-twenty-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-212173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matchbox Twenty performs at the Churchill Park Music Festival in 2022<\/p>\n<p>American Idol winner Phillip Phillips and local band Timber have been named as opening acts with more to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets go on sale on Tuesday at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Matchbox Twenty is the latest headline act for a stacked lineup for this year\u2019s festival, with country acts The Chicks and Keith Urban headlining on July 18th and 24th respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Matchbox Twenty front man Rob Thomas performing at the Churchill Park Music Festival in 2022 (VOCM News)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-701955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701955","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=701955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}