{"id":276900,"date":"2026-04-20T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276900\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:56:07","slug":"kern-county-library-teaches-young-readers-about-bakersfields-music-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276900\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Library teaches young readers about Bakersfield&#8217;s music history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Library is inviting young readers to step back in time and learn about the iconic Bakersfield Sound that helped shape the country music industry.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Sound Storytimes will be hosted every Tuesday through the month of May.<\/p>\n<p>The story time will help educate kids age 6 to 12 about music history in Kern County with a reading by a local author.<\/p>\n<p>The first story time is taking place this Tuesday, April 21, at Beale Memorial Library starting at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image provided by Kern County Library{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e4ca22c2-67c2-4601-8f94-9283fe958463-bakosoundlibrary.png\"\/>Image provided by Kern County Library<\/p>\n<p>More information about events happening at the Kern County Library can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/kerncountylibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">kerncountylibrary.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Library is inviting young readers to step back in time and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-276900","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\/276900","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=276900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}