{"id":710286,"date":"2026-07-25T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710286\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:36:11","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-the-sandwell-and-birmingham-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710286\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know about the Sandwell and Birmingham Mela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Headlining this year&#8217;s festival is Prem Dhillon, a Punjabi singer and lyricist whose pop-rap hits have made him a breakout star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be his only UK Mela appearance this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The international line-up also includes Sabba, Khushi Baliyan, Nirmal Sidhu, Oye Kunaal, and Komal Chaudhary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sandy and Mandy Sandhu, the daughters of renowned singer Kartar Ramla, are also performing exclusively live at the festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local artists taking to the stage include OH Dhami, Pamma Lassaria, Jatin Lassaria, Bobby Sarver and RK Ramme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Supporting the live performers will be Bhangra group the Jodi Dancers and The Live Experience Live Band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Headlining this year&#8217;s festival is Prem Dhillon, a Punjabi singer and lyricist whose pop-rap hits have made him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710286","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\/710286","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=710286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}