{"id":34468,"date":"2021-01-24T01:07:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T06:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=34468"},"modified":"2021-01-24T01:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T06:21:05","slug":"local-music-festival-goes-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/local-music-festival-goes-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Music Festival goes virtual."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How COVID-19 has altered a popular Fraser Valley music festival. Michelle Demers-Shaevitz, the artistic director of the Mission Folk Music Festival spoke with CIVL and said that COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on the Folk Festival. Mrs. Demers-Shaevitz says that this was the 34th annual festival in the Fraser Valley. This time it was not held at Fraser River Heritage Park in mission due to COVID-19 and the restrictions put in place by the government. This year, they held the festival virtually. Every year, the folk festival has 3,000 people attending in a 3-day period. Due to it being virtual this year, they only had 1,000 people attend. Mrs. Demers-Shaevitz says that one positive thing that happened due to them going virtual was that they contacted artists from across the country rather than just artists in the Fraser Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How COVID-19 has altered a popular Fraser Valley music festival. Michelle Demers-Shaevitz, the artistic director of the Mission Folk Music Festival spoke with CIVL and said that COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on the Folk Festival. Mrs. Demers-Shaevitz says that this was the 34th annual festival in the Fraser Valley. This time it was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":34472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,219],"tags":[284,5305,5304],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34468"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=34468"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=34468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}