{"id":257683,"date":"2026-08-02T12:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257683\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T12:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:54:17","slug":"blues-and-jazz-fest-brings-community-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257683\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues and Jazz Fest brings community together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Erie\u2019s favorite music festivals is returning this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie Blues and Jazz Festival is celebrating more than three decades of music, bringing thousands of people to Frontier Park each summer.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/books-galore-says-final-farewell-to-customers\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tBooks Galore says final farewell to customers\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What began as a grassroots event over 30 years ago has grown into one of Erie\u2019s signature traditions, featuring nationally recognized performers alongside regional artists.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said the event is centered around what brought it together in the first place: community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s such demand inside the community for an event that brings everybody together, and you get a chance to see people maybe you don\u2019t see all year long and they\u2019re your neighbors at Blues and Jazz Fest,\u201d said Timothy Bruno, board chair for the Erie Blues and Jazz Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie Blues and Jazz Festival continues Sunday with another full day of live performances at Frontier Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Erie\u2019s favorite music festivals is returning this weekend. The Erie Blues and Jazz Festival is celebrating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-257683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257683","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=257683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}