{"id":671558,"date":"2026-07-03T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671558\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:43:08","slug":"parents-criticise-inappropriate-caity-baser-youth-beatz-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671558\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents criticise &#8216;inappropriate&#8217; Caity Baser Youth Beatz performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 40,000 free tickets to the two-day Youth Beatz festival were distributed to young people and their families this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was first held in 2009 and currently receives \u00a3179,000 in annual funding from Dumfries and Galloway Council. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other headliners at this year&#8217;s event were rapper Example and a DJ set from two members of boyband The Vamps. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council spokesperson said the overwhelming majority of feedback from the weekend was very positive, and described the event as successful. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added: &#8220;Dumfries and Galloway Council is aware of a small number of concerns raised regarding language used during one of the performances at Youth Beatz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We take any concerns raised by attendees seriously. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Youth Beatz features established mainstream artists performing live, and while every effort is made to ensure performances are appropriate for the event, live performances are not entirely within the council&#8217;s control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 40,000 free tickets to the two-day Youth Beatz festival were distributed to young people and their families&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671558","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=671558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}