{"id":363319,"date":"2026-08-05T11:38:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363319\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:38:55","slug":"jamaican-independence-day-in-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363319\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican Independence Day in South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaican Independence Day is August 6, and South Floridians are celebrating big with live music, cultural events and community gatherings. After all, Florida has the second-largest Jamaican population in the United States! In Miami, all ages are welcome to ZeyZey on Thursday, August 6, for a <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.zeyzeymiami.com\/shows\/jamaican-independence-day-06-aug#tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mini festival<\/a> headlined by Walshy Fire, Reid Waters, Neil Robertson, and Supa Dups. Admission is free with RSVP before 9 pm. On Saturday, August 8, the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.showpass.com\/64th-jamaican-independence-celebration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">presents<\/a> two of Jamaica\u2019s most iconic artists, Beenie Man and Marcia Griffiths, as part of its Jamaican Independence Celebration. Ages 21+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamaican Independence Day is August 6, and South Floridians are celebrating big with live music, cultural events and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2122,225,227,226,106],"class_list":["post-363319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-categories-things-to-do","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}