{"id":266639,"date":"2026-08-17T01:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266639\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T01:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:40:11","slug":"al-jardine-brings-celebrate-erie-2026-to-a-nostalgic-close-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266639\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jardine Brings Celebrate Erie 2026 to a Nostalgic Close | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"unnamed.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1179\" height=\"651\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Celebrate Erie wrapped up its final night with a familiar California sound as Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine took the main stage Sunday, closing out the festival in memorable fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Jardine and his Pet Sounds Band helped bring Celebrate Erie 2026 to a warm, nostalgic finish. Fans packed State Street for one last night of music, singing along to classic hits that turned Perry Square into a chorus of harmonies.<\/p>\n<p>Erie News Now&#8217;s Mike Ruzzi and Phillip Ward joined Happi 92.7 radio personality Amy Sass as emcees, helping keep the energy high while introducing the performance.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday night show marked the final performance of the three-day festival, giving Erie a summertime sendoff filled with timeless music and a crowd that remained shoulder to shoulder until the final note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrate Erie wrapped up its final night with a familiar California sound as Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,296,139],"class_list":["post-266639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266639","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=266639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}