{"id":3027,"date":"2018-08-03T15:41:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:47:59","slug":"cajun-festival-close-to-the-llangollen-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/cajun-festival-close-to-the-llangollen-canal\/3027","title":{"rendered":"A Cajun Festival close to the Llangollen Canal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Big Weekend Cajun Festival is on again on August 17th to 19th, with moorings on the Llangollen Canal only a 20 minute walk away!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/bigweekend2.jpg\" alt=\"Big Weekend Harold Guillory\" width=\"650\" height=\"263\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/bigweekend2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/bigweekend2-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br \/>\nA joyous celebration of Cajun \u2013 Creole, and Louisiana roots music, dance and cuisine<br \/>\n\u2013 set in Welshampton in the heart of the beautiful North Shropshire Lakelands!<br \/>\nIt features a truly international line up, including..Drew Simon (Louisiana U.S.A.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With &#8211; The Flatville Aces (UK\/Holland)<\/li>\n<li>Harold Guillory (Louisiana USA)<\/li>\n<li>With &#8211; The Zydeco Diamonds (UK)<\/li>\n<li>Los Gallos (Paris France)<\/li>\n<li>Sister Suzie (UK)Plus many more! (visit www.northshropshirecajun.co.uk to see the full line up)<\/li>\n<li>Dance workshops, Instrument workshops, Jam sessions<\/li>\n<li>Authentic Cajun &amp; Creole cuisine with The Cajun Food Company<\/li>\n<li>Camp site, camp fire &amp; festival tent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For tickets and lots more info go to &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northshropshirecajun.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.northshropshirecajun.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nemail <a href=\"mailto:northshropshirecajun@hotmail.co.uk\"><strong>northshropshirecajun@hotmail.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would rather camp then The Big Weekend Campsite\u00a0campsite is situated in Welshampton village, close to the Parish Hall. Campsite facilities will include luxury portable toilets, fresh running water and a wash-up area. Showers are also available to campers in the Parish Hall from 9am until midnight. A large tent will also be erected for informal gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of room for all those wishing to camp, the campsite is open from midday on Friday 12th August and closes midday on Monday 15th August. Tents, caravans, camper vans and motorhomes are all welcome.\u00a0Important: Please note that the land owner operates a \u2018STRICTLY NO DOGS\u2019 policy on the campsite.<\/p>\n<p>Campsite bookings now available via <a href=\"http:\/\/eventbrite.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>eventbrite.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northshropshirecajun.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Big Weekend<\/strong> <strong>website<\/strong><\/a> has details of other accommodation in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Big Weekend Cajun Festival is on again on August 17th to 19th, with moorings on the Llangollen Canal only<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[707],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-waterways-news"],"acf":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}