{"id":517813,"date":"2026-06-25T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517813\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:57:20","slug":"robert-mizzell-and-mike-denver-to-headline-forest-fest-country-music-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517813\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mizzell And Mike Denver To Headline Forest Fest Country Music Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 24 June 2026 15:40\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a3bec34d813f9254ca.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The Kickin&#8217; Up Dust Arena is a brand new stage for the Laois music festival.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A popular Midlands country singer believes more traditional elements of the genre are making a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Mullingar&#8217;s Robert Mizzell alongside Mike Denver are set to headline the first ever Kickin&#8217; Up Dust Arena at Forest Fest this year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first stage dedicated to contemporary country music and Americana, at the music festival taking place at Emo&#8217;s Bee&#8217;s Wing Farm.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mizzell says it&#8217;s great to see people up on their feet:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 24 June 2026 15:40 The Kickin&#8217; Up Dust Arena is a brand new stage for the Laois&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3279,319,93,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-517813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}