{"id":1350,"date":"2017-06-28T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/music\/country-music-artists-set-to-take-over-the-waterfront-events-park-for-3rd-annual-shipkicker-country-music-festival\/"},"modified":"2017-06-28T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T21:34:08","slug":"country-music-artists-set-to-take-over-the-waterfront-events-park-for-3rd-annual-shipkicker-country-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/music\/country-music-artists-set-to-take-over-the-waterfront-events-park-for-3rd-annual-shipkicker-country-music-festival","title":{"rendered":"Country Music Artists Set To Take Over the Waterfront for Annual ShipKicker Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-54881\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/shipkicker.png\" alt=\"shipkicker\" width=\"300\" \/>The Queen Mary will host its 3rd annual country music festival, ShipKicker, at the Waterfront Events Park on Saturday, July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Brice is slated to take center stage and headline the festival. Country music favorites, Daniel Bonte &amp; The Bona Fide, Honey County, Jake Parr, The Swon Brother and Jerrod Niemann will join Brice in the festival line up.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the live performances, the festival also offers food vendors, a beer garden, yard-games and line dancing lessons to give people the full Long Beach country experience, organizers said.<\/p>\n<p>In between performances, attendees can stay entertained with the ShipKicker Saloon, offering a full bar, a dance floor and live performances from artists Alicia Kelly, Alexandria Korn, Melissa Farrior and Camel Helene.<\/p>\n<p>Additional parties will be held for the duration of the festival, beginning with a pre-party tomorrow night at Gaslamp\u2019s weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/474483639563031\">Strictly Country Thursdays<\/a>\u00a0at 5:00PM. On the day of the festival, a pre-festival parking lot party featuring the musical stylings of Redneck Rodeo and Morgan Leigh Band will be thrown before the venue opens at 11:00AM. he country vibe will continue after hours during the ShipKicker after party \u00a0at North Long Beach\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboycountry.mu\/\">Cowboy Country night club<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the ShipKicker country music festival are $49 when bought in advance and $59 at the festival. For more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queenmary.com\/events\/shipkicker-2017\/\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The Queen Mary is located at 1126 Queens Highway.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of The Queen Mary.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen Mary will host its 3rd annual country music festival, ShipKicker, at the Waterfront Events Park on Saturday, July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":66775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[497],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-country-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}