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Nick Rail Music Opens Bakersfield Store

Nick Rail Music, a California-based school music dealer, held a grand-opening celebration for its new Bakersfield store on Aug. 29. The event featured Mento Buru, an eight-piece, Latin-jazz-ska-salsa band.

More than 25 local band directors showed up, along with customers and manufacturer reps from D’Addario, Yamaha, Eastman, Gemstone, P. Mauriat, Buffet Crampon and Conn-Selmer.

The 1,200-square-foot retail space includes a sound-proof try-out room, fully stocked step-up room, large repair facility in the back and five sound-proof teaching studios.

“Bakersfield has a wonderful sense of community, and it’s a community that takes its music seriously,” said Nick Rail, the owner of Nick Rail Music. “We’ve been sending reps to the area for close to 20 years, so while we’re new to town in the brick-and-mortar sense, we’re already a known entity to the teachers and schools.”

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