{"id":45882,"date":"2015-03-28T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T04:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45882"},"modified":"2015-03-28T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T03:50:07","slug":"boonstock-festival-announces-its-not-coming-back-to-penticton-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/28\/boonstock-festival-announces-its-not-coming-back-to-penticton-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Boonstock festival announces it\u2019s not coming back to Penticton, B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45883\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45883\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image20.jpg\" alt=\"The festival was held in Gibbons, Alta., for nine years before it was banned and moved to Penticton, where it faced a string of hardships including the death of a 23-year-old attendee. Facebook photo.\" width=\"960\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image20.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image20-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image20-900x505.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The festival was held in Gibbons, Alta., for nine years before it was banned and moved to Penticton, where it faced a string of hardships including the death of a 23-year-old attendee. Facebook photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PENTICTON, B.C.\u2014The troubled Boonstock Music and Arts Festival will not be returning to Penticton, B.C., in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Boonstock Productions Inc. made the announcement on social media, but organizers haven\u2019t said whether it will be moved elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day festival was held on the Penticton Indian Reserve last year and featured the performances by American rapper Macklemore and musician and DJ Ryan Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>The festival was held in Gibbons, Alta., for nine years before it was banned and moved to Penticton, where it faced a string of hardships including the death of a 23-year-old attendee.<\/p>\n<p>Boonstock president and founder Colin Kobza, who was unsuccessful in finding a financial partner for the operation over the winter, could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Penticton Indian Band Chief Jonathan Kruger says he has mixed feelings on the event, which he says brought more people to the reserve than he has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were problems and regrettably the bad part was a young lady lost her life,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PENTICTON, B.C.\u2014The troubled Boonstock Music and Arts Festival will not be returning to Penticton, B.C., in 2015. Boonstock Productions Inc. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-entertainment","mauthors-james-miller","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45882","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}