BEAN FESTIVAL. | 5
FRIDAY, SEPT. 9, 2011
plenty of
things to do at the downtown festival
Press staff report
Whether you’ve attended one Bean Festival or 24, you know that the historic festival is all about bringing families together and celebrating our community’s past, present and future. And while there are some changes in store, public admission remains free to all events to the festival that brings back many favorite features of years past. Due to the construction of the Sixth Street Plaza, the layout for this year’s festival will change, the most notable of which is the move of the Kids Carnival to 10th and A streets near the Tracy Press building. Another change will be the relocation of the Global Village Stage, which will now be near 10th and B streets. This stage willfeature a
variety of community acts Two additional stages are scheduled to highlight local music and entertainment. At the corner of 10th Street and Central Avenue, the Main Stage will have bands such as Latin Essence, which is headlining Sunday afternoon. The secondary stage is sponsored by The Great Plate on Eighth and Central. For the complete list of Main Stage entertainers, visit www.tracybeanfestival.com. The Bean Pavilion, located on Central Avenue between Ninth and 10th streets, returns, giving festivalgoers an opportunity to celebrate dry beans via food samples, a variety of specialty dry beans for purchase, give-aways and cooking demonstrations. And the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts
on Central Avenue will have its galleries registrations are accepted. open in partnership with the festival. Cook-offs, including the competition for Also back this year is the mechanical the prestigious title of Best Chili in Town, bull, which bucked adventurous riders a begin on Sunday at 8 a.m. and last through year ago at 10th and 1 p.m., with judging B streets. starting by 1:30 p.m. On Saturday, the and awards handed 5K and 10K runs out at 4. Downtown Tracy is open for the feshave a 6 a.m. regisAlso on Sunday, tival from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, tration with 8 a.m. the festival will conSept. 10, and from 10 a.m. through 6 p.m. start at the Tracy clude with a Sept. Sunday, Sept. 11. However, on both days, Branch Library, 11 memorial tribute major participation events begin earlier. 20 E. Eaton Ave. from Tracy Police Meanwhile, classic Department, Tracy cars and trucks begin pulling up to claim a Fire Department, Tracy City Council, and spot along 10th Street at 7 a.m. Saturday, other nonprofit organizations from the with the show lasting through 3 p.m. Day-of community.
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Fill up with good food If food isn’t one of your top reasons for visiting the Tracy Dry Bean Festival, this year’s vendor lineup might change your list of priorities. Sure, there’s the nowstandard Bean Pavilion, which offers beans for sale as well as food samples and other tasty treats. But the main show when it comes to grub is clustered on 10th Street between B Street and Central Avenue, and on Central Avenue between Eighth and Seventh streets. Among the vendors, 150 in total, lined up the week before the festival are: Aidan’s Icies, Artful Creation BBQ B.P. International Foods Bubbas BBQ Ed’s Events Food Estelitas Eric’s Buffalo Wings and Funnel Cakes Fruit Friz Good & Tasty Hula Huts Las Tapatias Lemon Yard Lockeford Lemonade Lockeford Meat and Sausage Co. Lommp-Yah! Los Olivos Salvadorian Food Mary’s Roasted Corn The Rock Apostolic Church Sandy’s Pop Shop Scoop Shop Sherry’s Interprise Summer & Spencer Grill
Music on the Main Stage Located at Central Avenue just north of 10th Street, the main stage will showcase several musical acts as well as the location for Sunday’s Sept. 11 memorial ceremony. The lineup includes:
Saturday 10 a.m.: Opening ceeremonies 11 a.m.: Great Oglee Moglee and Bean Fest birthday wishes 1 p.m.: Network 2:10 p.m.: Chili Cook-Off announcements 2:30 p.m.: Funkanauts 5 p.m.: Sunkings Sunday 11 a.m.: Sept. 11 remembrance 12:30 p.m. Knottywood 2:30 p.m. Q 4 p.m.: Latin Essence
ing throughout the weekend. The lineup incluces: Saturday 10 a.m.: Lovesick Romeo 12:30 p.m.: Katie with Karaoke 3 p.m.: Metal Shop San Francisco — classic ’80s rock 5:45 p.m.: LED Sunday 10 a.m.: Katie with Karaoke 1:30 p.m.: Hari Kari 4:30 p.m.: Threshold
Kids Carnival again More tunes at the rides Set up near the Tracy Great Plate Press parking lot off 10th Set up next to the long-
time Tracy watering hole, the Great Plate stage will feature a variety of local acts that will keep the tunes flow-
BLAST FROM FESTIVALS PAST: Clockwise from top left, runners race during the 2010 edition of the Bean Run. This year’s event starts from Lincoln Park at 8 a.m. Saturday. The Orbitron gives kids a ride in the Kids Carnival section of the festival a year ago. Chili cookers get serious during the first festival in 1987. The Bean Pavilion, which offered plenty of dried legumes in 2010, will offer a plethora of beans again this year. A 1912 International Auto Wagon, shown off at last year’s Show and Shine car show, hearkens back to the days beyond the Tracy Dry Bean Festival.
and A streets, the Kids Carnival will be filled with a variety of activities that’ll please the young and youngat-heart alike, though a final
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lineup was not available as of press time.
Other attractions The mechanical bull also
Liven up with a Global Village A variety of different acts
makes its return on B Street north of 10th Street, bucking adventursome riders. The Euro Jump, off Central Avenue on Ninth Street, lets festival-goers strap in and bungee themselves skyward before hurtling back down toward a trampoline. It’s the perfect place to go for a ride before chowing
and attractions are on tap throughout the weekend at the Global Village — formerly the Multicultural — Stage on B Street off 10th Street. A final lineup was not available as of press time.
down on a plate of beans from the Bean Pavilion, just south of 10th Street on Central Avenue, where HomeTown Buffet will again offer tastes of several bean dishes for a small price. And kids with an artsy side should check out the Kids Be’an Kids craft area on 10th Street, where a variety of creative projects are available to young artistes.