Country music is synonymous with Nashville. But there’s a city in Southern California that is often dubbed “Nashville West.” Bakersfield has its own music hall of fame, and its musical ...

a different kind of country music—unafraid of its rough edges—was coming out of the smoky dance halls in Bakersfield. Buck Owens was at the center of it. With unabashed twang—and with Don ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Country music singer Cole Swindell is coming to Bakersfield. Swindell is set to perform on July 30 at the Dignity Health Amphitheatre located inside the Park at ...

In the world of country music, there are many disparate regional ... But few have had the outsized impact of the Bakersfield sound, a mid-20th century era in which rockabilly, honky-tonk, country ...

More than 100 locals poured into Rasmussen Senior Center in Oildale on Monday morning to celebrate the birthday of Red Simpson, the late Bakersfield Sound country music pioneer who died in 2016.

Officials with the Kern County Fair have started releasing the 2025 Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tejon Concert Series at the Budweiser Pavilion. Ashanti is ...

From those who make country music to those that play it, the country-pop sound of Shania Twain has impacted those all over the world and right here in Bakersfield. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Bakersfield Country Music Awards is set to happen in November. The event is scheduled to take place on Nov. 16 at the The Nile Theater at 1721 19th St.

He and Petree helped create the Bakersfield sound, a genre of country music that rose out of the bars and honky-tonks, oil fields and farms of the Central Valley. It was California’s raucous ...

"The Bakersfield Sound," Robert E. Price's authoritative history of the hard-edged style that transformed country music, is now on sale for $21.95. "The Bakersfield Sound: How A Generation of ...