{"id":727391,"date":"2026-06-10T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/727391\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:51:10","slug":"ferry-strike-threat-prompts-backup-plans-for-churchill-park-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/727391\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry Strike Threat Prompts Backup Plans for 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\/churchill-park-music-festival-2022-crowd-matchbox-twenty-20.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Ferry Strike Threat Prompts Backup Plans for Churchill Park Music Festival\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matchbox Twenty performs at the Churchill Park Music Festival in 2022<\/p>\n<p>The potential for a service disruption on the Gulf run is of particular concern to a local concert promoter.<\/p>\n<p>Next month\u2019s Churchill Park Music Festival has a star-studded lineup from the Chicks and Keith Urban, to Matchbox Twenty and Kesha.<\/p>\n<p>Promoter Pete Quinton says any suggestion of a potential disruption in Marine Atlantic service is a concern, so they\u2019re putting together contingencies in the event of a strike or lockout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re already working in the background to try to solve some issues with how we can divert if we need to, and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Quinton is among those who would welcome increased capacity and lower rates on the Marine Atlantic run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really wish the government would solve that issue properly,\u201d says Quinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting the logistics of that ferry, dealing with wind delays, expense, you deter a number of artists from coming here\u2026.then we have our sound and lighting gear, five trucks coming in with that; they need to cross (on) the ferry, \u00a0so it\u2019s all a concern.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Matchbox Twenty performs at the Churchill Park Music Festival in 2022 The potential for a service disruption&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-727391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727391","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=727391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}