{"id":26259,"date":"2026-08-03T12:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=26259"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:16:25","slug":"udm-to-sponsor-arts-beats-eats-festival-sept-4-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/08\/03\/udm-to-sponsor-arts-beats-eats-festival-sept-4-7\/","title":{"rendered":"UDM to sponsor Arts Beats &amp; Eats Festival, Sept. 4-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeatseats.com\">2026 Arts Beats &amp; Eats (ABE) Festival<\/a> is scheduled for <strong>Sept. 4-7<\/strong> in downtown Royal Oak, and UDM is once again a sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Vice President of University Marketing &amp; Communications Gary J. Erwin helped announce the upcoming entertainment lineup at the July 29 festival press conference at Rock &amp; Brews in Royal Oak. During his remarks, Erwin also announced that UDM would begin celebrating the institution\u2019s 150th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The festival runs from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Sept. 4-6, and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7. Among the featured bands are Lit, Fuel, Taking Back Sunday, Third Eye Blind, Audrey Ray, Brett Young, Chris Young, Genuwine and Kool &amp; The Gang, among many others.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the event, check out the news coverage below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/news\/arts-beats-eats-lineup-royal-oak-music-festival-returns-another-ambitious-year.amp\">Fox 2 News story<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=llf3H_01nMM&amp;t=1254\">WDIV news stream<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"993\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/llf3H_01nMM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=1254&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UDM will once again sponsor the 2026 Arts, Beats &amp; Eats Festival, set for Sept. 4-7 in downtown Royal Oak. At the July 29 press conference, Associate Vice President Gary J. Erwin helped unveil the festival entertainment lineup and announced the start of UDM&#8217;s 150th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,6438,4404],"tags":[7468,7467,7469,7470,3045],"class_list":["post-26259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccnews","category-community","category-student-announcements","tag-arts-beats-eats","tag-arts-beats-eats-festival","tag-fox-2-news","tag-sponsor","tag-wdiv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6Px","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26259"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26266,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26259\/revisions\/26266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}