{"id":258498,"date":"2026-08-03T19:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258498\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:18:18","slug":"doug-smiths-dixieland-all-stars-to-perform-free-outdoor-concert-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258498\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Smith\u2019s Dixieland All-Stars to perform free outdoor concert Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON \u2014 Doug Smith\u2019s Dixieland All-Stars will play Friday at the Christopher A. Doherty Park at Wyoming Avenue and Linden Street, the same day the Scranton Jazz Festival launches.<\/p>\n<p>The free music begins with other local artists playing jazz from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Smith\u2019s band will play from 6 to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first of the season\u2019s Pocket Park Live events. The other announced events are a Scranton Fringe Festival preview on Sept. 4 from 7 to 9 p.m. and Scranton Fringe productions of the classic children\u2019s book \u201cThe Wind in the Willows\u201d on Oct. 2-3 at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Pocket Park Live is a project of Scranton Tomorrow and the city\u2019s Scranton Arts Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 Doug Smith\u2019s Dixieland All-Stars will play Friday at the Christopher A. Doherty Park at Wyoming Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1681,201,182,1213,708,28,178,180,179,289,729],"class_list":["post-258498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-entertainment","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-music-and-concerts","tag-outdoors","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258498","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=258498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}