{"id":627995,"date":"2026-05-07T02:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627995\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:15:08","slug":"hip-hop-legend-doug-e-fresh-returns-to-durham-for-bimbe-cultural-arts-festival-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627995\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-hop legend Doug E. Fresh returns to Durham for Bimb\u00e9 Cultural Arts Festival :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A legend is returning to Durham this spring to take over the main stage at the 56th Annual Bimb\u00e9 Cultural Arts Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The original human beat boxer, Doug E. Fresh, will perform.<\/p>\n<p>The Bimb\u00e9 Cultural Arts Festival will take place on Saturday, May 16 at Rock Quarry Park from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This free and family-oriented event celebrates African and African-American culture with local vendors, performers, community resources, Southern and Caribbean food vendors and much more!<\/p>\n<p>The celebration of Bimb\u00e9 week kicks off on Thursday, May 14th ahead of festival day with a series of free, community-centered events happening all across Durham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dprplaymore.org\/282\/Bimbe-History\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bimb\u00e9  history page<\/a> for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A legend is returning to Durham this spring to take over the main stage at the 56th Annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[271673,88,11337,216,219634],"class_list":["post-627995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bimbe-cultural-arts-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-festivals","tag-music","tag-out-and-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}