{"id":7438,"date":"2014-07-16T21:20:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T01:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=7438"},"modified":"2014-07-30T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T20:04:16","slug":"glass-tiger-and-platinum-blonde-to-headline-ribfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/glass-tiger-and-platinum-blonde-to-headline-ribfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass Tiger and Platinum Blonde to headline 2014 Ribfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aurora\u2019s 2014 Ribfest will have an extra dose of star power this September with headliners Glass Tiger and Platinum Blonde.<\/p>\n<p>The homegrown Glass Tigers will hit the stage on Friday, September 5, starting at 9 p.m. Platinum Blonde will perform the following evening, also at 9 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Geoffrey Dawe announced the headliners before a packed crowd at Town Park on Wednesday night for Concert in the Park, featuring the Celtic rock group The Tartan Terrors. <\/p>\n<p>Ribfest runs at Machell Park on Aurora Heights Drive, just west of Yonge Street, from Friday September 5, and Saturday, September 6 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and finishing up on Sunday, September 7 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Age of majority for Ribfest activities is required after 8 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Additional activities planned for Ribfest include Top 20 performances for the Hoedown Showdown, a kids\u2019 activity zone, the Glenn Marais Band, and a beer garden hosted by the Aurora Rotary Club. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora\u2019s 2014 Ribfest will have an extra dose of star power this September with headliners Glass Tiger and Platinum Blonde.<\/p>\n<p>The homegrown Glass Tigers will hit the stage on Friday, September 5, starting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}