{"id":22070,"date":"2020-03-24T13:05:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/organizers-call-off-june-blues-festival\/"},"modified":"2020-03-24T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T19:05:01","slug":"organizers-call-off-june-blues-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/organizers-call-off-june-blues-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers call off June blues festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/Blues-shn-032520-1-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/Blues-shn-032520-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/Blues-shn-032520-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/Blues-shn-032520-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/Blues-shn-032520-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/Blues-shn-032520-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Kate Moss plays the 2017 Blues From The Top Festival in Winter Park. This year&#8217;s festival has been canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak.<\/strong><br \/><em>Sky-Hi News file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Grand County Blues Society has decided to cancel the 18th annual Blues From The Top Music Festival on June 27\u201328, representing one of the furthest reaching coronavirus related cancellations to date in Grand County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In an email blast, the society\u2019s board of directors said the decision was made to protect the health and wellbeing of the festival attendees, artists, volunteers and residents of Winter Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe know this comes as a disappointment to music fans and especially to the fans that have supported the festival since our first in 2002,\u201d the society acknowledged. \u201cWe thank you for your continued support. We look forward to resuming the festival in June of 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Anyone who has already bought tickets for the festival can expect a refund, as the blues society says ticketholders will get a refund notification from the festival and Eventbrite over the next 30-45 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Additionally, the society has created a new fund, the Blues From The Top 2020 Musicians Fund, to help the musicians who were scheduled to perform at the now canceled festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">According to the blues society, all donations to this fund will go to musicians in need. For more info, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.GrandBlues.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.GrandBlues.org<\/a> or email <a href=\"mailto:bluesfromthetop@grandblues.org\">bluesfromthetop@grandblues.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/organizers-call-off-june-blues-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Moss plays the 2017 Blues From The Top Festival in Winter Park. This year&#8217;s festival has been canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak.Sky-Hi News file photo The Grand County Blues Society has decided to cancel the 18th annual Blues From The Top Music Festival on June 27\u201328, representing one of the furthest reaching coronavirus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 14:57:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}