{"id":2413024,"date":"2026-05-12T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2413024"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:20:17","slug":"new-exhibit-at-beale-memorial-library-honors-bakersfields-country-music-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-exhibit-at-beale-memorial-library-honors-bakersfields-country-music-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibit at Beale Memorial Library honors Bakersfield&#8217;s country music roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 <\/span>The Kern County Library is honoring the music legends that helped create the Bakersfield Sound.<\/p>\n<p>The library in unveiling a new exhibit, &#8220;Legends of Kern County: Portraits in Black <!-- -->&amp;<!-- --> White&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit features 10 portraits by Patti Peak Doolittle that each showcase an iconic musician that played a part in developing the distinct county music that Kern County is known for.<\/p>\n<p>Originally displayed in the Trout&#8217;s Nightclub in Oildale, the portraits will now be permanently displayed at the Beale Memorial Library.<\/p>\n<p>A dedication ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 14, at the library beginning at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Kern County Library Marketing and Promotions Associate Fahra Daredia joined Eyewitness News Mornings to share more details.<\/p>\n<p>The dedication ceremony will feature live music from local country musicians, giveaway opportunities and remarks from local historians.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the Kern County Library can be found at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kerncountylibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">kerncountylibrary.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source bakersfieldnow.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Library is honoring the music legends that helped create the Bakersfield Sound. The library in unveiling a new exhibit, &#8220;Legends of Kern County: Portraits in Black &amp; White&#8221; The exhibit features 10 portraits by Patti Peak Doolittle that each showcase an iconic musician that played a part in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2413026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/New-exhibit-at-Beale-Memorial-Library-honors-Bakersfields-country-music.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413027,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413024\/revisions\/2413027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}