{"id":676685,"date":"2026-07-06T12:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676685\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:56:15","slug":"ipswich-music-day-thousands-enjoy-uks-biggest-free-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676685\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Music Day: Thousands enjoy UK&#8217;s biggest free festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of people gathered in a Suffolk park on Sunday to enjoy the UK&#8217;s biggest free one-day music festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ipswich Music Day took place from midday to 20:00 BST, with a range of acts performing across six stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 30 performers from Ipswich and the East Anglian region were picked out from over 200 applications this year to appear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now in its 36th year, the festival is organised by Ipswich Borough Council and includes The Bowl Stage which is sponsored by BBC Radio Suffolk and features BBC Introducing artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scroll down to see how the crowds celebrated this year&#8217;s Ipswich Music Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of people gathered in a Suffolk park on Sunday to enjoy the UK&#8217;s biggest free one-day music&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676685","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\/676685","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=676685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}