{"id":767072,"date":"2026-09-11T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767072\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:46:10","slug":"new-annual-taunton-music-event-could-bring-more-tourists-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767072\/","title":{"rendered":"New annual Taunton music event could bring more tourists to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Giles Adams, chair of Visit Somerset, said he thinks the event will change Taunton&#8217;s profile as a place to go to for larger events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Anything that&#8217;s more regular reduces the need for Taunton people to go further afield but also from a tourism point of view, it will attract people to go to Taunton,&#8221; Adams said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Both the ground and Taunton&#8217;s connectivity is really important and combine to make it a really good place for this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adams added that Taunton has been building up its cultural offerings for the past years, which is a good foundation for a larger event to find its home in the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The better the arts and culture offer is for people that live in Somerset, it&#8217;s also really positive for the people living and working here and perhaps for people looking at moving their business here and moving their workforce here,&#8221; Adams added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giles Adams, chair of Visit Somerset, said he thinks the event will change Taunton&#8217;s profile as a place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767072","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\/767072","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=767072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}