{"id":24108,"date":"2017-04-04T15:43:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24108"},"modified":"2017-04-04T15:43:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:43:22","slug":"merle-haggard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/merle-haggard\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Legends and Legendary Music this Week in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/merhaga.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BAKERSFIELD: Haggard Boxcar Festival on April 9, 2017 celebrates Kern Pioneer Village&#8217;s Haggard House, the newly restored boyhood home of country music legend Merle Haggard (Okie from Muskogee and The Fightin&#8217; Side of Me.) Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band helped create the Bakersfield Sound, a rough edge unlike Nashville&#8217;s polished recordings of the same era. Boxcar Festival concert pays tribute to the legend who passed away on April 6,\u00a02016, and features Merle Haggard&#8217;s sons Ben &amp; Noel, along with Merle&#8217;s band, The Strangers. boxcarfest.org<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/april-music.html\">Music Festivals this Week<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SANTA ANA: When We Were Young Music Festival April 8-9 at The Observatory<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: Boots in the Park \u2014 Boots, BBQ &amp; Beer April 7, Woodward Park Amphitheater<\/li>\n<li>CLAYTON: Rakkasah West April 7-9, \u00a0Middle Eastern music festival<\/li>\n<li>PALM SPRINGS: Free Opera in The Park April 9 in Sunrise Park<\/li>\n<li>WESTLAKE VILLAGE: California Jazz &amp; Wine Fest April 9<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: Lucidity Festival April 7-9 at Live Oak Campground<\/li>\n<li>OAKLAND: Baltic Choral Music Festival April 8, Choirs perform Baltic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, and Finnish music<\/li>\n<li>THREE RIVERS: Jazzaffair April 7-9<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: Blazefest. 105.1 The Blaze at Big Fresno Fair<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Gospel Music Explosion April 7-9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD: Haggard Boxcar Festival on April 9, 2017 celebrates Kern Pioneer Village&#8217;s Haggard House, the newly restored boyhood home of country music legend Merle Haggard (Okie from Muskogee and The Fightin&#8217; Side of Me.) Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band helped create the Bakersfield Sound, a rough edge unlike Nashville&#8217;s polished recordings of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}