2015 Arroyo Grande Strawberry Festival to feature 40 Great Performing Acts on 11 Stages!
Festival Features Over 400 Booths, 3 Carnival Areas, Camel Rides and Street Performers on Memorial Weekend
The 32nd Annual Arroyo Grande Strawberry Festival will take place on the Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, May 23rd & 24th. The Strawberry Festival is San Luis Obispo County’s largest free Festival and is the primary yearly fundraiser for the Arroyo Grande Village Improvement Association. This family-style event brings together thousands of visitors and local residents to enjoy activities and entertainment, three carnival areas, the Strawberry Stampede, hundreds of art, craft and display booths, ethnic foods, and of course, scrumptious strawberry treats of all kinds as well as fresh strawberries by the box! Heritage Square Museums, antique shops, wineries and restaurants in the historic Arroyo Grande Village will also be open. The Arroyo Grande Strawberry Festival has been named “the place to be on Memorial Weekend” by Sunset Magazine!
The Festival’s entertainment line-up is once again packed with captivating performers on Eleven Stages throughout the Village! Many types of popular music will be featured including ethnic, folk, blues, jazz, bluegrass and rock ‘n roll! Regional favorites such as The Crisptones, Soul Sauce, Burning James and Jimmy Cool, the Blue Moonshine Bluegrass Band, Bob and Wendy, The Piasanos, Rob Larkin and Debra Windsong, BanjerDan and Andean musicians Huayllipachia will grace Festival stages. Several jazz groups will perform including New Orleans sounds from the Crustacea Jazz Band, pop jazz from the Moon Pie Band and big band tunes from Cal Poly’s University Jazz Band. The Physicians Choice Showcase Stage will feature Ted Z and the Wranglers, The Hardly Sisters, Sean Wiggins & Lone Goat and the Cash Cats presenting a tribute to Johnny Cash & June Carter.
Additionally Ballooney the Clown, The Arroyo Grande Pop Choir and World Champion Unicyclist Jamey Mossengren will delight the kids at the Rabobank Family Stage. Renown LA Street Performer Alex Clark will again be featured around the Festival Grounds. The Pit Martial Art and Fitness students and the Troupe Benat Serat belly dancers will perform on the East End Dance Lawn. Hundreds of young dancers from five local dance studios will be featured on two stages as well as baton twirlers and color guards. Rides on live camels will be available on Nelson Street and three carnival areas will be spread around the Festival grounds! The Dignity Health Teen Plaza will be hosted by Music Motive and will feature several teen bands, teen songwriters, dance and street performers and carnival attractions such as a rock climbing wall and the big Euro Bungee ride. The RKDians, Stereo Steve and the Bucket Busters will perform at the Teen Plaza.
The featured stage sponsors for this year’s Festival are Rabobank, Rooster Creek Tavern, Physicians Choice Medical Group by GEMCare Health Plan and Dignity Health (Arroyo Grande Community Hospital, French Hospital & Marion Regional Medical Center.) Major media sponsors include KSBY, CW5, the Tolosa Press, Sunny Country and 99.1 Real Rock.
