If you drove by uptown Charlotte over the weekend, you might have spotted a crowd of people dancing in First Ward Park. That\u2019s because the annual Charlotte SHOUT! Festival is underway. <\/p>\n
Musicians played jazz music on a stage as community members mingled with vendors. Others danced in the grass while children ran around First Ward Park. Traiana Johnson, 28, attended for the first time with her friend and children. Johnson said the music drew her into the park. . <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s intriguing. That\u2019s why we walked over here,\u201d Johnson said. “I hear music, live music. I love live music. I see a bunch of tents, so I\u2019m intrigued to see what it\u2019s about.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Charlotte SHOUT! Festival spotlights local arts, music and culture. Samantha Vallee also attended the festival with her fianc\u00e9. She sat on a boulder watching the live performance, and said she was happy to see a range of people interacting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful. I already got greeted by a little boy, He said, \u2018Hey, queen.\u2019 I said, \u2018Oh, hey, king,’\u201d Vallee said. “And we had a great conversation, and it’s been great.\u201d<\/p>\n
The annual Charlotte SHOUT! Festival runs through April 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you drove by uptown Charlotte over the weekend, you might have spotted a crowd of people dancing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-187137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}