{"id":143495,"date":"2026-03-20T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143495\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:24:08","slug":"awards-night-ceremony-kicks-off-berks-jazz-fest-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143495\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards night ceremony kicks off Berks Jazz Fest | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 The 35th annual <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.berksjazzfest.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Berks Jazz Fest<\/a> kicked off with an awards ceremony Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Berks Arts Award Night honored the winners of the Pagoda Award, the Frank Scott Award and more.<\/p>\n<p>It also featured the \u201cArt of Jazz\u201d exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, the big kickoff luncheon will be held at the Peanut Bar.<\/p>\n<p>The jazz fest is typically 10 days of live music and events at concert venues, churches, schools and restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the festival is expanding, with events planned through April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The 35th annual Berks Jazz Fest kicked off with an awards ceremony Thursday night. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-143495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}