{"id":2416000,"date":"2026-05-14T03:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2416000"},"modified":"2026-05-14T03:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:53:27","slug":"music-food-and-races-highlight-weekend-events-at-128th-annual-lilac-festival-in-highland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/music-food-and-races-highlight-weekend-events-at-128th-annual-lilac-festival-in-highland-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Music, food and races highlight weekend events at 128th annual Lilac Festival in Highland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"storyContent\">\n<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 The 128th annual Lilac Festival continues Thursday at Highland Park. <\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/top-news\/lilac-festival-guide-a-look-at-whats-new-the-music-lineup-and-more\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/top-news\/lilac-festival-guide-a-look-at-whats-new-the-music-lineup-and-more\/\"> Lilac Festival kicks off: A look at what\u2019s new, the music lineup, the forecast, and more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Creekside School\u2019s steel drum band performed popular songs from The Lion King and Michael Jackson on Wednesday. The music continues Thursday with performances by indie rock star Joe P, The Demos, and Jacob Asher. <\/p>\n<p>Special events continue this weekend with the first ever Lilac Table on Saturday. Attendees can sample local restaurants and craft beverages. <\/p>\n<p>Sunday is the 47th annual Lilac 5K and 10K. More information about the festival and a link to sign up for the races is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/roclilacfest.com\/event\/lilac-run-10k\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/roclilacfest.com\/event\/lilac-run-10k\/\"><strong>available here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<nav aria-label=\"breadcrumb\">\n<ol class=\"breadcrumb\"><strong>For Related Stories:<\/strong>\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/lilac-festival\/\" rel=\"tag\">lilac festival<\/a><\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<p>        <!-- RevContent Tag --><\/p>\n<p>        <!-- End Tags - RevContent -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.whec.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 The 128th annual Lilac Festival continues Thursday at Highland Park. RELATED: Lilac Festival kicks off: A look at what\u2019s new, the music lineup, the forecast, and more Creekside School\u2019s steel drum band performed popular songs from The Lion King and Michael Jackson on Wednesday. The music continues Thursday with performances by indie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2416001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[472938],"class_list":["post-2416000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-lilac-festival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Music-food-and-races-highlight-weekend-events-at-128th-annual.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416002,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416000\/revisions\/2416002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}