{"id":277904,"date":"2026-04-21T03:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:20:25","slug":"bc-hosts-9th-annual-kcmea-jazz-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277904\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Hosts 9th Annual KCMEA Jazz Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, April 20, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Edward Simonsen Performing Arts Center was home to Kern County Music<br \/>\n                        Educators Association\u2019s (KCMEA) 9th Annual Jazz Day. Each year, hundreds of students<br \/>\n                        from across the county come together to perform, take part in skill-building workshops,<br \/>\n                        and receive critique from professional musicians. Ten local high schools participated<br \/>\n                        in the event including Stockdale High School, Del Oro High School, Shafter High School,<br \/>\n                        and more. There were also three Bakersfield College Jazz groups, under the direction<br \/>\n                        of Professor Kris Tiner, that performed throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s guest clinician was Cathlene Pineda, a critically acclaimed pianist and<br \/>\n                        composer who is currently the co-director of the jazz program at the California Institute<br \/>\n                        of the Arts. She provided valuable insights and training to the participating groups,<br \/>\n                        and she also performed with the BC Jazz studies faculty and Kern County Honor Jazz<br \/>\n                        Band.<\/p>\n<p>With groups playing throughout the day, attendees were able to experience a wide variety<br \/>\n                        of vibrant performances from some of the best young jazz musicians in Kern County.<br \/>\n                        The Indoor Theater was packed all day with family, friends, fellow musicians, and<br \/>\n                        music fans \u2013 making this year\u2019s Jazz Day the biggest and best yet! A big thank you<br \/>\n                        to KCMEA, and the Kern County high school bands and their directors for bringing beautiful<br \/>\n                        music to the BC campus. We look forward to continuing this tradition next year!<\/p>\n<p>                              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jazz-day-2026-news-SQ3.jpg\" alt=\"three BC Jazz faculty performing on stage during the event\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jazz-day-2026-news-SQ2.jpg\" alt=\"BC jazz group on the stage getting ready to perform\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jazz-day-2026-news-H2.jpg\" alt=\"wide shot of performing jazz group on stage and the audience listening\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jazz-day-2026-news-H3.jpg\" alt=\"group of musicians performing on a stage\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, April 20, 2026 Last week, the Edward Simonsen Performing Arts Center was home to Kern County Music&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-277904","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\/277904","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=277904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}