{"id":427113,"date":"2025-12-05T19:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427113\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:13:10","slug":"holiday-tree-lighting-ceremony-at-blue-cross-riverrink-winterfest-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427113\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony at Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are here and Philadelphia is celebrating with the annual tree lighting ceremony at the Independence Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest!<\/p>\n<p>The event takes place on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, from 6 p.m. through 9 p.m. on 101 South Columbus Boulevard in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony includes live entertainment, special guests, ice skating, seasonal treats, a fire pit and performances by the Philly All Star Band, Bianca Ryan, Power Surge, Shekhinah B, Betsy Daily Dancers, Ryan Coleman, TY Kingsley, and more.<\/p>\n<p>At 8 p.m., PECO will help power 15,850 lights to illuminate the 45-foot holiday tree.<\/p>\n<p>Before the ceremony, NBC10 First Alert Weather meteorologist Bill Henley will do a tree lighting forecast during NBC10 News at 4 and NBC10 News at 5. He will also do a live interview during NBC10 News at 7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can watch Bill\u2019s coverage as well as the tree lighting in the video embedded on top of this article.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The holidays are here and Philadelphia is celebrating with the annual tree lighting ceremony at the Independence Blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":427114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,7709,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-427113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-holidays","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115668556475347821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}