{"id":23150,"date":"2016-09-13T18:05:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T01:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23150"},"modified":"2016-09-13T18:05:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T01:05:34","slug":"free-september-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/free-september-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pay a Fee When the Music is Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/stergro.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are many incredible ticketed concerts and music festivals in September ranging from the decades-old Monterey Jazz Festival to American River Music Festival in Lotus. California also hosts some hard-to-believe, free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/september-music.html\">September Music Festivals&#8230;.<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#1 Best Line Up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-bluegrass.html\">Hardly Strictly Bluegrass<\/a> in Golden Gate Park. The 2016 Line Up includes\u00a0Mary Chapin Carpenter | Mavis Staples | Rosanne Cash | Chris Isaak | Cyndi Lauper | Wynonna Judd and more than 25\u00a0musical acts &#8212; all FREE!<\/li>\n<li>#1 Best Tribute: Berkeley&#8217;s annual\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/berkeley-grateful-dead.html\">Shakedown Street Festival<\/a>\u00a0pays tribute to The Grateful Dead. Emcee of the two day, free event is Sunshine Becker who sang vocals with Further comprised of Dead members, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh.<\/li>\n<li>#1 Best Jazz Festival: Vacaville Jazz Festival features over 300 musicians performing blues, gospel, jazz dixieland, swing, big band, Latin and funk, free of charge.<\/li>\n<li>#1 Best\u00a0Variety Music\u00a0Festival: Adams Avenue Street Fair\u00a0features\u00a0over 80 bands and San Diego&#8217;s world famous weather.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many incredible ticketed concerts and music festivals in September ranging from the decades-old Monterey Jazz Festival to American River Music Festival in Lotus. California also hosts some hard-to-believe, free September Music Festivals&#8230;.&gt; #1 Best Line Up: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in Golden Gate Park. The 2016 Line Up includes\u00a0Mary Chapin Carpenter | Mavis Staples [&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\/23150"}],"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=23150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}