{"id":40,"date":"2016-05-27T00:03:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T00:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2016-05-27T00:03:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T00:03:14","slug":"festival-is-here-friday-gates-open-at-5pm-plus-family-fun-all-day-saturday-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/festival-is-here-friday-gates-open-at-5pm-plus-family-fun-all-day-saturday-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival is here! Friday &#8211; Gates open at 5pm! Plus Family Fun all day Saturday &#038; Sunday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>Festival starts tomorrow night with local bands and brews and is followed by a weekend full of great activities for everyone!<\/p>\n<p>FESTIVAL FRIDAY<br>\nGates open at 5pm \u2013 and will feature 4 different acts. All on our Main stage at Elmwood Park. Buttons are only $5 for the entire night!<\/p>\n<p>5:30 \u2013 Corey Hunley &amp; the Millionaires<br>\n6:30 \u2013 The Low Low Chariot<br>\n7:30 \u2013 Rutledge<br>\n8:30 \u2013 Parrots of the Caribbean<\/p>\n<p>And as you may have heard, there have been some changes in the overall layout of some of the Festival\u2019s activities but we\u2019ve still got all the great things you\u2019ve enjoyed in the past!!<\/p>\n<p>WEEKEND FULL OF FUN<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, be sure to bring your family down and enjoy the many activities on the Elm Avenue side of the park. We\u2019ve got the Carol Williams Kaleidoscope Stage where the action starts at noon and includes performances from:<\/p>\n<p>Roanoke Children\u2019s Theater<br>\nMill Mountain Theatre<br>\nEinstein\u2019s Monkey<br>\nBranan Thompson Magic<br>\nClogging, cheerleading, Art to music and more!<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll also find all kinds of Children\u2019s activities like the Fireman\u2019s Foam pit \u2013 open Noon-2 on Saturday. Plus Children\u2019s areas which will be open 10-5 Saturday and Noon -5 Sunday.<br>\nCome join us in making:<br>\ncrazy hats<br>\ncrazy sticks<br>\nbracelets<br>\nhand print art for the young ones<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a bubble park, bouncy houses and lots. lots more!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be a great weekend so hope to see you all out there!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festival starts tomorrow night with local bands and brews and is followed by a weekend full of great activities for everyone! FESTIVAL FRIDAY Gates open at 5pm \u2013 and will feature 4 different acts. All on our Main stage at Elmwood Park. Buttons are only $5 for the entire night! 5:30 \u2013 Corey Hunley &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/festival-is-here-friday-gates-open-at-5pm-plus-family-fun-all-day-saturday-sunday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Festival is here! Friday &#8211; Gates open at 5pm! Plus Family Fun all day Saturday &#038; Sunday!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roanokefestival.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}