{"id":201049,"date":"2026-05-24T03:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201049\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:48:15","slug":"troika-festival-returns-to-erie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201049\/","title":{"rendered":"Troika Festival returns to Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music, dancing and homemade Russian favorites are all on the menu this weekend as Erie\u2019s Troika Festival returns for another year.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said food preparations began months ago, and now crews are busy setting up for the three-day celebration outside of the Russian Old Rite Orthodox Church of the Nativity.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Acts, return to Beach 1 announced for Sunset Music Series;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/acts-return-beach-1-announced-195410390.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Acts, return to Beach 1 announced for Sunset Music Series\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The festival runs Friday through Sunday and will feature entertainment, cultural performances and activities for the whole family, rain or shine.<\/p>\n<p>Father Pimen Simon, director of the Church of the Nativity of Christ said, \u201cMany people tell me they love the food here, and they love the entertainment, and they love the setting overlooking the bayfront, so I think if you\u2019ve never come to the Troika Festival, give it a try, you\u2019ll be happy you have; people come back year after year telling us it\u2019s one of their favorite festivals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The festival begins at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 22 then runs from noon to 6 Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music, dancing and homemade Russian favorites are all on the menu this weekend as Erie\u2019s Troika Festival returns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,88326,88327],"class_list":["post-201049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-father-pimen-simon","tag-festival-returns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201049","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=201049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}