{"id":7967,"date":"2025-10-19T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7967\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T10:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:47:09","slug":"county-music-singer-garret-owens-returns-to-erie-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7967\/","title":{"rendered":"County Music Singer Garret Owens Returns to Erie | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville Artist and Mercyhurst University alum Garret Owens returned to campus for a special pregame concert at Saxon Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The concert on a stage set up in the parking lot as fans enjoyed tailgating fun before the Lakers matchup against NEC Rival Duquesne.<\/p>\n<p>Owens who graduated in 2020 played football for both Mercyhurst and Duquesne before a stint with the XFL Houston Roughnecks.<\/p>\n<p>He has since launched a successful music career, recently signing a recording contract in Nashville. The performance was free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nashville Artist and Mercyhurst University alum Garret Owens returned to campus for a special pregame concert at Saxon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6891,136,138,137,5945,5947,6895,6893,6894,6892],"class_list":{"0":"post-7967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-country-music","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-garrett-owen","13":"tag-mercyhurst-alum","14":"tag-mercyhurst-university","15":"tag-nashiville","16":"tag-nashville","17":"tag-singer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967","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=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}