{"id":168414,"date":"2018-06-30T09:50:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T13:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168414"},"modified":"2018-06-30T09:50:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T13:50:45","slug":"ont-beach-town-makes-shawn-desman-concert-free-after-meagre-ticket-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/30\/ont-beach-town-makes-shawn-desman-concert-free-after-meagre-ticket-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Ont. beach town makes Shawn Desman concert free after meagre ticket sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_168415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168415\" style=\"width: 1006px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Shawn-Desman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168415\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Shawn-Desman.jpg\" alt=\"An Ontario beach town has dropped the price of entry to a Shawn Desman concert this weekend after struggling to sell tickets to the event as part of its Canada Day festivities. (Photo:Shawn Desman\/Twitter)\" width=\"1006\" height=\"893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Shawn-Desman.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Shawn-Desman-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Shawn-Desman-768x682.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1006px) 100vw, 1006px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-168415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Ontario beach town has dropped the price of entry to a Shawn Desman concert this weekend after struggling to sell tickets to the event as part of its Canada Day festivities. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaRealSD\/status\/959202524518477824\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaRealSD\">Shawn Desman\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASAGA BEACH, Ont. \u2014 An Ontario beach town has dropped the price of entry to a Shawn Desman concert this weekend after struggling to sell tickets to the event as part of its Canada Day festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal officials in Wasaga Beach announced that the Toronto pop singer&#8217;s Saturday performance had been made free to the public in a news release earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The release says ticket buyers will be automatically reimbursed, and those who won a chance to see Desman perform will be invited to take part in a \u201cmeet and greet\u201d with the Juno winner.<\/p>\n<p>The board overseeing the event recommended that council approve a budget increase of up to $53,000 to cover the loss in ticket revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Council documents suggest that only 17 tickets had been purchased roughly three weeks ahead of the concert.<\/p>\n<p>Desman addressed the price cut in a tweet Friday evening, saying it doesn&#8217;t matter to him how many people are at the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve played to 17, 170, 1700 and 17,000 people,\u201d the pop star tweeted from his verified account. \u201c(I) do it for the love, not for the fame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Desman attached an image to his tweet with the words, \u201cThe unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASAGA BEACH, Ont. \u2014 An Ontario beach town has dropped the price of entry to a Shawn Desman concert this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":168415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[52375,1112,52376],"class_list":["post-168414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-beach-town","tag-ontario","tag-shawn-desman","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}