{"id":487298,"date":"2026-03-21T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487298\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:14:08","slug":"sophie-ellis-bextor-to-headline-harlow-town-show-in-essex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487298\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Ellis-Bextor to headline Harlow Town Show in Essex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harlow Town Show was held between the 1960s and 1980s, before a brief revival in the 2000s, and once attracted tens of thousands of guests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swords said he was committed to bringing it back to the annual calendar &#8220;bigger and better than ever&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More acts and activities are due to be announced for the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will perform on the the town&#8217;s bandstand, which is being rebuilt after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cz7r19581vjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an arson attack in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the first act to perform on the bandstand will be the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra on 4 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harlow Town Show was held between the 1960s and 1980s, before a brief revival in the 2000s, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}