Thanks for that.
Those characters were from your use of tribe_get_event_categories(), as mentioned earlier, which isn’t used in my snippet.
In the snippet I provided, the “More Info” text will link to the first category’s archive view. If an event is in multiple categories, only the first category will be linked (i.e. there won’t be more than one “More Info” bit of text/link).
I hope this makes the snippet clearer, and I’m glad it’s helpful to you.
Have a great weekend!