{"id":208791,"date":"2026-03-07T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208791\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:20:24","slug":"shafter-celebrates-return-of-first-friday-market-with-food-music-and-street-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208791\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafter celebrates return of First Friday market with food, music and street party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shafter residents filled the streets for a night of food, live entertainment, shopping, and community fun as the city celebrated the return of its First Friday Market.<\/p>\n<p>The street party brought people together to take in the sights and sounds of the event, with vendors and activities drawing crowds back to the monthly gathering.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/267d3131-8f4f-41a8-a6eb-4b87b129dd94-Sequence_LINARES_SHAFTERNIGHTMARKET_0001_frame_40491.jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/069fe164-5604-4877-a1a4-ff9096416ae3-Sequence_LINARES_SHAFTERNIGHTMARKET_0001_frame_19131.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>First Friday Market in Shafter takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. on the first Friday of every month at 320 Central Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/36f11d87-0baa-4572-8ab3-63a2c4ad30c9-Sequence_LINARES_SHAFTERNIGHTMARKET_0001_frame_42256.jpeg\"\/>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>For more information, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/firstfridaysmarket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First Fridays &amp; Market<\/a> on Instagram or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/thehensroost.com\/?utm_source=ig&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=link_in_bio&amp;fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnOQ-uEAVUhDorSKXkfolDUR_Wwu9tV71KGhRzXwhlV7AkOKYZnAWg9uPyLqk_aem_7R87diqkp6bNEJyueEz2-A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">thehensroost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shafter residents filled the streets for a night of food, live entertainment, shopping, and community fun as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-208791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}