{"id":368891,"date":"2022-05-20T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=368891"},"modified":"2022-05-20T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:06:16","slug":"indigo-music-festival-tonight-expects-2000-plus-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/indigo-music-festival-tonight-expects-2000-plus-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigo Music Festival tonight expects 2,000-plus crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_368893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368893\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Indigo-Music-Festival-pix-PW-11.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-368893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marianas Visitors Authority held a press conference yesterday to introduce the performers in tonight\u2019s Indigo Music Festival. (Kimberly B. Esmores)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Indigo Music Festival brought to the Marianas by Roil Soil Clothing is expected to be the largest Music Festival to hit the Marianas post-pandemic, with the event expected to garner over 2,000 participants at the Garapan Fishing Base. <\/p>\n<p>According to Roil Soil Clothing owner Shayne Villanueva, the music festival set for tonight is expected to gather a crowd of over 2,000 people based on the tickets sold thus far. However, the number is expected to grow as tickets will still be available at the door. <\/p>\n<p>The music festival, which is set for 5:30pm tonight to 11:30pm, will feature the Maui-based reggae band Maoli, as well as Guam\u2019s One Rhythm and Steppahs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to have such a big event. It\u2019s been quite some time since COVID hit. We sold a bunch of tickets, and it seems like a lot of people are excited as well so we would just like to thank our sponsors: Marianas Visitors Authority, Marianas Variety, Dept. of Community and Cultural Affairs, Budweiser, Roil Soil Marketing, COVID-19 Task Force, and IT&amp;E,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Villanueva said the CNMI should expect a great performance overall and is encouraging everyone to come early and to exercise safety and respect for the bands tonight. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to bring in a high class act and Saipan definitely deserves this,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>MVA managing director Priscilla Iakopo thanks Roil Soil for putting the music festival together, as the CNMI has been yearning for another concert coming out of this pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank Shayne from Roil Soil for bringing this great opportunity to the Marianas as we\u2019ve longed for an exciting activity and what better activity than to have Maoli, Steppahs, and One Rhythm with us,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indigo Music Festival brought to the Marianas by Roil Soil Clothing is expected to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":368894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}