March to the beat at the Stockton Asparagus Festival!
8 Mar 2010 | 3 Comments | posted by MrAsp | in Entertainment
Booming, fast and dynamic, The California Repercussions is a 45-70 piece band that plays rock-n-roll as well as traditional band music. All of the members are ex-band people from various schools (ie, Cal, Stanford, UC Davis, Hayward, etc) who just really enjoy playing.
Although most of the members have “day-jobs”: Engineers, Museum curators, moms, dads, students, artists, writers, they get together at least once a month for rehearsals and gigs.
They entertain to enthusiastic audiences just about anywhere: ski resorts, beer tastings, amusement parks, street fairs, and on Saturday, April 24th, at the Stockton Asparagus Festival!
California Repercussions have traveled to Australia, the Soviet Union, Finland, Scotland, England, Austria, the Czech Republic, Japan, and even Oktoberfest in Munich! You won’t want to miss this group at the festival.
To visit their site, just go to:
http://www.repercussions.com/index.htm
Kids just love asparagus… the Asparagus Festival that is!
8 Dec 2009 | 11 Comments | posted by MrAsp | in Kids
Just as for the adults, there’s plenty of food and fun awaiting the kids at the Stockton Asparagus Festival. Once they tire of the array of fun rides and activities in the Kids Asparazone at Weber Point, they might want to catch one of the shows at the Sea Lion Encounter and get close and personal with a sea lion for a photo.
Then it may be on to the Skyy Dog Arena in Civic Court to see the acrobatic canines showing off their incredible disc-catching ability, graceful aerobatic skill and talent at jumping rope. They’ll want to stay to watch the unbelievable Tyson, the skateboarding bulldog. Tyson is a skater who just happens to be a dog and has wowed crowds at the Festival for the past two years.
Kids will be enthralled with Velocity Circus, something new at the Festival this year. Located in the intersection of Center and Fremont streets, this Cirque du Soleil-type show features spectacular aerobatic performances from an elevated truss structure. Acts include a mystical contortionist, a mesmerizing aerial tissue artist, a world-famous hoop artist, and a fantastic slack rope artist.
The DeCarli Stage at DeCarli Square offers community entertainment for all ages, and kids would especially appreciate some of the ethnic dance groups. Strolling entertainment, including the stilt-walking Dragon Knights characters will fascinate younger guests. Also catching their attention will be the antics of the California Repercussions, a strolling band composed mostly of former collegiate marching-band members.
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