{"id":420283,"date":"2026-08-01T01:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420283\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:37:45","slug":"the-sounds-of-freedom-patriotic-concert-celebrates-americas-250th-anniversary-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420283\/","title":{"rendered":"The sounds of freedom: Patriotic concert celebrates America&#8217;s 250th anniversary | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music, speeches and tributes in celebration of the\u00a0United States\u2019 semiquincentennial filled Beale Memorial Library on Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The America\u2019s 250th Celebration Concert was a joint performance featuring Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra musicians and the Bakersfield College Chamber Choir.<\/p>\n<p>The event began with opening remarks from Nick Gonzalez, executive director of the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, and Bruce Wearda of the Kern chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>A quartet of symphony musicians offered patriotic favorites, and SAR members read excerpts of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music, speeches and tributes in celebration of the\u00a0United States\u2019 semiquincentennial filled Beale Memorial Library on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-420283","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\/420283","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=420283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}