{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_nvaa67g5a22e7tsn5ixa","title":"Nashville meets Cebu, and Visayan music gets a bigger stage","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/nashville-meets-cebu-and-visayan-music-gets-a-bigger-stage-nvaa67g5a2","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_nvaa67g5a22e7tsn5ixa","seq":1329188,"kind":"article","title":"Nashville meets Cebu, and Visayan music gets a bigger stage","url":"https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/nashville-meets-cebu-and-visayan-music-gets-a-bigger-stage","summary":"When American country musician Stokes Nielson first came to Cebu, he was not looking for a Filipino band to headline an international music festival. On his way to Osmeña Peak, Nielson asked his companions to play some Bisaya music. They put on Oh! Caraga’s “Way Sukod,” followed by another song, and then another. By the time he reached the mountain, he was convinced there was something worth bringing to a much bigger audience. “I realized that music is at a deeper level in…","published":"2026-10-02T10:57:41Z","seen":"2026-10-02T11:32:37Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-sunstar-com-ph-a5b31b","name":"sunstar.com.ph","domain":"sunstar.com.ph","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q7638135","name":"SunStar","type":"magazine","country":"PH","designations":["periodical"]}},"via":"kite-sunstar-com-ph-a5b31b","topics":["asia","cebu","lifestyle"],"entities":[{"id":"Q23197","name":"Nashville","type":"place"},{"id":"Q13786","name":"Cebu","type":"place"}],"image":"https://cf-images.assettype.com/sunstar/2026-10-02/m65mkict/83113361721569609519218777076490852273520741n.jpg?w=280","story":"st_nvaa67g5a22e7tsn5ixa","category":"arts-culture-entertainment","category_p":0.8700000047683716,"sentiment":"positive","tone":0.6000000238418579,"political":0.05999999865889549}]}