{"id":13473,"date":"2017-02-07T00:07:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T00:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13473"},"modified":"2017-02-06T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T09:52:26","slug":"selby-arts-festival-to-add-major-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/selby-arts-festival-to-add-major-acts","title":{"rendered":"Selby Arts festival to add major acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">The Selby Arts Festival is planning more acts to perform, which will be held from 22<sup>nd<\/sup> July and 30<sup>th<\/sup> July. Dave Edmunds, organiser, said talks are on with a headline comedy act and also with a number of musical artists to perform at events across the town.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The organiser said a crowdfunding campaign has got donations of almost \u00a33,500 and hopes the \u00a35,000 target be reached in weeks. He said someone well known on television and stand-up shows will on the sets for the start of the festival. He wouldn&#8217;t say who it is, but said it&#8217;s great to have this person for the first year of the festival as a headline act. He added they were waiting to hear back from certain artists as it is really a busy period but scheduling will see big acts performing live in Selby.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Donations to support the festival can be given through crowdfunder.co.uk\/selby-arts-festival-1. For details follow Selby Arts on Facebook, or on Twitter (@SelbyArtsFest). The 9-day festival will include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/15069520.Major_acts_linked_to_new_Selby_festival\/\">free events<\/a>, pop-up performances, comedy, music, theatre and family events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Selby Arts Festival is planning more acts to perform, which will be held from 22nd July and 30th July. Dave Edmunds, organiser, said talks are on with a headline comedy act and also with a number of musical artists to perform at events across the town. The organiser said a crowdfunding campaign has got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13474,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions\/13474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}