{"id":195378,"date":"2026-05-18T05:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T05:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:22:28","slug":"fifth-annual-eddiefest-raises-funds-for-kidney-disease-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195378\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth annual Eddiefest raises funds for kidney disease awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) &#8211; The fifth annual Eddiefest took place on Commerce Street, featuring heavy metal music and fundraising for kidney disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Inside the Clover Club, collections of skulls, vinyl records and B-horror movies from Sevrin Films filled the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event helps fundraise for kidney disease, with a portion of proceeds from tickets and vendors going to the American Kidney Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Organizers say raising awareness of kidney disease is what makes Eddiefest important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOne in five people have it and not many people know that and it\u2019s tough and it\u2019s very debilitating and the medical cost associated with it, so it\u2019s just our way of trying to raise awareness about it,\u201d said Tracy Byrd, organizer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bands who performed this year ranged from local favorites to metal artists from Pennsylvania, with Horrorwood Ending and Red Letter Philosophy taking the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WVVA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) &#8211; The fifth annual Eddiefest took place on Commerce Street, featuring heavy metal music and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2376,12781,12786,12784,12783,28,30,29,12785,12787,12782],"class_list":["post-195378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-video-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}