{"id":206997,"date":"2026-06-16T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206997"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:42:03","slug":"free-concerts-to-be-offered-july-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/06\/16\/free-concerts-to-be-offered-july-3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Free concerts to be offered July 3-4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of America\u2019s 250th birthday celebration, back-to-back nights of free musical entertainment are set for July 3-4 in downtown Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert Live\u2019s Feel Good Friday concert series will be on pause June 26 and July 3, but Navy Ship Club 726 has secured Superhawk, a rock band based in Fort Wayne for 7 p.m. Friday, July 3. The concert will be family friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, July 4, Paulding native and country music singer Pete Schlegel will perform at Fountain Park. Schlegel has released several albums and has had a pair of No. 1 hit songs \u2013 \u201cLeavin\u2019 Ain\u2019t As Easy As It Sounds\u201d and \u201cMy God.\u201d The free concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Navy Club Ship 726 is also organizing the July 4 parade in downtown Van Wert. The parade will travel from the YWCA to the YMCA, starting at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff As part of America\u2019s 250th birthday celebration, back-to-back nights of free musical entertainment are set for July 3-4 in downtown Van Wert. Van Wert Live\u2019s Feel Good Friday concert series will be on pause June 26 and July 3, but Navy Ship Club 726 has secured Superhawk, a rock band based in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 13:34:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207000,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206997\/revisions\/207000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}