{"id":264147,"date":"2026-08-12T20:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264147\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:05:05","slug":"america250-celebration-continues-with-erie-county-arts-music-festival-featured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264147\/","title":{"rendered":"America250 Celebration Continues with Erie County Arts &#038; Music Festival | Featured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"America250\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"889\" height=\"500\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Erie County Arts &amp; Music Festival, set for August 23, at the Erie County Fairgrounds in Wattsburg Pennsylvania will be a continuation America 250 celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will celebrate local arts, music from Wicked Goose and Hot Mess, and community engagement while serving as a key gathering as Erie County continues its America250PA activities. All events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers will be maintaining previously established partnerships for the new event, including recognizing Erie News Now as the exclusive media sponsor and presenting sponsor of the Erie County Arts &amp; Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p>A centerpiece of the festival will be the creation of an Erie County Time Capsule, designed to preserve items and memories that reflect the county&#8217;s history and culture for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>One random Erie County resident will be chosen by Erie News Now and have the opportunity to contribute a personal item to be included in the time capsule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie County Arts &amp; Music Festival, set for August 23, at the Erie County Fairgrounds in Wattsburg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8120,25330,2363,136,142,138,137,22779],"class_list":["post-264147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-america250","tag-arts-festival","tag-community-engagement","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-music-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264147","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=264147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}