{"id":20962,"date":"2015-08-19T16:03:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T23:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20962"},"modified":"2015-08-19T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T23:05:59","slug":"best-free-music-festivals-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/best-free-music-festivals-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Free Music Festivals This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/difbeat.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/august-music.html\">California music festivals<\/a> offer plenty of free entertainment you can&#8217;t pass up!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sutter Creek Jug Band Festival on Aug. 22\u00a0at historic Sutter Creek Inn is legendary. Hear the sound of South Sac Jooks (middle picture), Jailhouse Stringband and groups who use saucers, spoons, washboards, bottles and ordinary items in musical compositions. FREE!<\/li>\n<li>Sand City West End\u00a0Festival with dozens of bands includes Rushad Eggleston (right photo) who hails from Carmel. He entertains on a cello that creates the sweetest sounds ranging from bluegrass to blazing\u00a0jazz. FREE!<\/li>\n<li>Stone Soup Street Music Festival in Grover Beach FREE!<\/li>\n<li>Long Beach\u00a0Uptown Latin Jazz and Blues Festival (left pictures) in Houghton Park FREE!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also see:\u00a0\u00a0 Blue\u00a0Oyster Cult \u00a0&#8220;Don\u2019t Fear The Reaper&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/santa-cruz-beach-concerts.html\">Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Concerts<\/a> on Aug. 21 FREE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s\u00a0California music festivals offer plenty of free entertainment you can&#8217;t pass up! Sutter Creek Jug Band Festival on Aug. 22\u00a0at historic Sutter Creek Inn is legendary. Hear the sound of South Sac Jooks (middle picture), Jailhouse Stringband and groups who use saucers, spoons, washboards, bottles and ordinary items in musical compositions. FREE! Sand City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20962"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}