{"id":779311,"date":"2026-07-04T07:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779311\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:15:34","slug":"nl-folk-festival-gets-government-funding-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779311\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Folk Festival Gets Government Funding Boost"},"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\/07\/Folk-Fest-Bannerman-Park.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"NL Folk Festival Gets Government Funding Boost\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NL Folk Festival (File Photo)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s music to the ears of the organizers of the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival \u2013 a $45,000 contribution from the provincial government to help stage this year\u2019s event. <\/p>\n<p>The minister responsible, Andrea Barbour, made the announcement yesterday. She says such events make our province unique. <\/p>\n<p>Jean Hewson, the interim chair of the festival, says the grant makes it official \u2013 there will be a folk festival in Bannerman Park on Saturday, August 8. <\/p>\n<p>The event has gone through a transformation in this, its 50th year or, as organizers like to say, 49 1\/2. A larger musical  showcase will come next year to mark the 50th. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve raised enough money to mostly pay off the debt, and now government has come on board to support the event. We all feel really good about it,\u201d says Hewson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; NL Folk Festival (File Photo) It\u2019s music to the ears of the organizers of the Newfoundland and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-779311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779311","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=779311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}