{"id":728499,"date":"2026-06-27T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728499\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:00:14","slug":"rapper-ludacris-cancels-on-the-national-cherry-festival-just-three-weeks-before-performance-9and10news-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728499\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Ludacris cancels on the National Cherry Festival just three weeks before performance \u2013 9and10News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-7zszsu-0 ggPTvK body-paragraph\">TRAVERSE CITY \u2014 The National Cherry Festival announced some bad news for Ludacris fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-7zszsu-0 ggPTvK body-paragraph\">The rapper has cancelled his July 11 headlining appearance at the Pepsi Bayside Music Stage. This comes just three weeks before he was supposed to perform on the last night of the festival.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/icon-512-dev.png\" alt=\"910 News\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"266\" class=\"must-be-sixteen-nine-aspect-ratio\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-7zszsu-0 ggPTvK body-paragraph\">Ludacris\u2019 management team cited \u201cunforeseen scheduling conflicts\u201d for the cancellation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-7zszsu-0 ggPTvK body-paragraph\">The festival will email ticket holders about what to do next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-7zszsu-0 ggPTvK body-paragraph\">All of this has left National Cherry Festival organizers scrambling. They said they are actively looking at options and will have updates as soon as they have any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRAVERSE CITY \u2014 The National Cherry Festival announced some bad news for Ludacris fans. The rapper has cancelled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-728499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728499","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=728499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}