{"id":242471,"date":"2026-07-13T19:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242471\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:15:33","slug":"western-extravaganza-takes-over-santander-arena-this-saturday-with-bulls-bands-and-barrels-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242471\/","title":{"rendered":"Western extravaganza takes over Santander Arena this Saturday with Bulls, Bands, and Barrels | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8212; Folks can get a taste of all-things western at the Santander Arena this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Bulls, Bands and Barrels returns to downtown Reading Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>We caught up with crews moving in truck-loads of dirt ahead of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say they have something for everyone, with bull riding, and barrel racing followed by a country music concert.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Dylan Marlowe and The Jack Wharff Band will take the stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that&#8217;s what&#8217;s unique about this event. Some people come for the bull riding&#8230; some people come for the barrel racing&#8230; some people come for just the concert but they get to see the bull riding and they get exposed to western sports before the concert part of it,&#8221; said CEO Hunter Price.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Doors to the arena will open at 5:00 p.m. Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The show will begin at 6:30 p.m..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8212; Folks can get a taste of all-things western at the Santander Arena this weekend. Bulls,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-242471","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\/242471","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=242471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}