{"id":235150,"date":"2026-07-04T02:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235150\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T02:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:10:13","slug":"philly-pops-perform-at-independence-hall-for-america250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235150\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly Pops perform at Independence Hall for America250"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite the brutal heat that forced many of Philadelphia\u2019s Independence Day celebrations to be canceled Friday, the Philly Pops played on with <a href=\"https:\/\/july4thphilly.com\/event\/pops-on-independence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a performance at Independence Mall with Idina Menzel<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures peaked in the triple digits earlier in the afternoon, less than 24 hours after record-breaking<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWS_MountHolly\/status\/2072871799566569945\" rel=\"nofollow\"> highs were reported<\/a> across the region by the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of attendees braved the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-heat-wave-emergency-fourth-of-july-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Code Red Heat Health Emergency<\/a> for some orchestral selections as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/july4thphilly.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wawa Welcome America<\/a> event slate. Earlier that day, the Salute to Independence Semiquincentennial Parade, <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-250-semiquincentennial-parade-canceled-independence-mall-tourists\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which<\/a> was anticipated to draw roughly 10,000 participants and had taken roughly two years to plan, was canceled.<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-746362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pops-independence-concert-cs-070326-04-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"Tens of thousands of people packed Wawa Welcome America's Pops on Independence concert\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\"  \/>Tens of thousands of people packed Wawa Welcome America\u2019s Pops on Independence concert on July 3, 2026, during a Heat Health Emergency in Philadelphia due to the ongoing heat wave. (Cory Sharber\/WHYY)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,4001,71,70],"class_list":["post-235150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-250","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235150","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=235150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}