{"id":24783,"date":"2021-08-14T02:10:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T02:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/arkells-lead-the-return-to-live-music-this-weekend-at-budweiser-stage\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:08:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T14:08:44","slug":"arkells-lead-the-return-to-live-music-this-weekend-at-budweiser-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/burlington\/arkells-lead-the-return-to-live-music-this-weekend-at-budweiser-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkells lead the return to live-music this weekend at Budweiser Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamilton\u2019s band is returning to the stage this weekend with three consecutive nights of live music at Toronto\u2019s Budweiser Stage. The event, dubbed \u2018Arkells Long Weekend,\u2019 will be the band\u2019s first gig after a 520 day concert drought due to the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arkells Long Weekend will take place August 13th, 14th, and 15th, and feature Polaris Prize winning rapper Haviah Mighty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With tickets sold-out, nearly 10,000 fans will be rocking out each night at the epic outdoor amphitheatre for the first time in 17 months. Attendance has been limited to 75% of the venue\u2019s capacity in order to comply with gathering restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite a lack of live-music opportunities recently, Arkells have been keeping busy with the release of numerous singles off their upcoming album \u201cBlink Once,\u201d including \u201cYou Can Get It,\u201d featuring K-Flay, \u201cAll Roads,\u201d and \u201cOne Thing I Know.\u201d Early this afternoon, the band also released \u201cSwing Swing Swing,\u201d a song about heartbreak, turned up to 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arkells - Swing Swing Swing (Official Music Video)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXMo3H7Fm_Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arkells have been busy preparing to make the return to live-music well worth the wait, according to their social media posts. In order to include fans in the process as much as possible, a phone line has been set up to allow ticket-holders to make song requests for Arkells Long Weekend. Fans can call in at 1 (888) 426-8856<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following Arkells and Haviah Mighty, Budweiser stage will lend itself to many other big names in Canadian music including Sam Roberts Band, Matt Mays, and K-OS (Aug 19th), and Blue Rodeo and Alan Doyle (Aug 28th).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBlink Once\u201d is available for pre-order <a href=\"https:\/\/arkells.lnk.tt\/blinkonce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton\u2019s band is returning to the stage this weekend with three consecutive nights of live music at Toronto\u2019s Budweiser Stage. The event, dubbed \u2018Arkells Long Weekend,\u2019 will be the band\u2019s ...","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":24784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Arkells-lead-the-return-to-live-music-this-weekend-at-Budweiser-Stage.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28939,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783\/revisions\/28939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}