{"id":40,"date":"2026-09-21T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/riverside-festival-draws-60000\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:30:00","slug":"riverside-festival-draws-60000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/riverside-festival-draws-60000\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverside festival draws 60,000 despite the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rain and full meadows<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organisers counted 60,000 visitors over the weekend, 4,000 fewer than in the record year 2024. Most came on Saturday evening, when the rain stopped for two hours and the local band Lowland played to a meadow full of umbrellas.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Free and close to home<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entry to the festival is free. It is paid for by the city, local businesses and the sale of food and drinks, for which the organisers use a deposit system with washable cups. This year, 92 percent of the cups came back.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next year<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The festival moves one week later in 2027 to avoid the start of the school year. The call for bands from the region opens in January.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days, four stages and almost no dry hour: the Riverside festival still had its second-best year since it began in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"leitvia_pattern_status":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}