Calendar of Events

• Times: Friday and Saturday: 7 p.m.; Sunday: 2 p.m.
• Location:
  Gaslight Melodrama Theater and Music Hall
  12748 Jomani Dr.
  Bakersfield, CA 93312
  
  
• Contact: Gaslight Melodrama
• Phone: 661-587-3377
• General Admission Adult: Friday and Saturday: $20; Sunday $18
• General Admission Child: 12 & Under: $9
• General Admission Senior: $18

To Celebrate the Gaslight Melodrama's Fifth Birthday you, our loyal patrons, voted to bring back "My Big Fat Oildale Wedding" to the Gaslight Stage beginning August 20th. See it again for the first time. This show will be followed by an all new musical Vaudville Review written and directed by our own Warren Dobson. Bring the whole family and help celebrate five fantastic years of bringing family fun and theatre to the Bakersfield Community.

• Times: Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday 12-4 p.m.
• Location:
  Bakersfield Museum of Art
  1930 R Street
  Bakersfield, CA 93301
  
  
• Phone: 661-323-7219
• Admission: Members - Free
• General Admission Adult: $5
• General Admission Senior: (65+) $4

A wide variety of interesting and compelling artworks will go on display September 9 when the Bakersfield Museum of Art kicks off the annual Visual Arts Small Works Festival plus three other new exhibitions.

 Using a theme of "Vessels," the Visual Arts Festival is expected to draw artists from around Kern County and California who have submitted works for the juried competition.

The theme "Vessels" is a concept with a broad variety of meanings, said Curator Vikki Cruz. The idea is for artists to work with a uniform format of 12 x 12 inches or less to explore the depths of the theme.

Visual Arts Festival "Vessels" featuring:

The Ceramic Art of David Furman

Pamela Hill Enticknap: Currents

Eye Gallery

• Times: 7 p.m.
• Location:
  Buck Owens' Crystal Palace
  2800 Buck Owens Boulevard
  Bakersfield, CA 93308
  
  
• Contact: Crystal Palace Ticket Office
• Phone: 661-328-7560
• Admission: $51.50-61.50

Gretchen Wilson (born June 26, 1973 in Pocahontas, Illinois) is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys, was released in 2007.

Overall, Wilson has charted 13 singles on the Billboard country charts, of which five have reached Top Ten: the Number One "Redneck Woman", as well as "Here for the Party" (#3, 2004), "When I Think About Cheatin'" (#4, 2004), "Homewrecker" (#2, 2005), and "All Jacked Up" (#8, 2005). The album Here for the Party was certified 5× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for sales of five million copies, while All Jacked Up was certified platinum.