The Executive Committee and Staff welcome you to celebrate Stanislaus County Fairgrounds diverse cultural heritage at the first Annual California Tamale Festival.

The California Tamale Festival celebrates taste and talent by bringing together live music, the arts, great plated foods. The event showcases professional and amateur community talent with live entertainment throughout the one day, professional cooking demonstrations, a custom car show, tamale themed creative displays, arts, and crafts, DJs, and Mariachis and much more!!!

Event Highlights:

Tamale Alley

Home Cook, Food Truck, and Restaurant Tamale Challenges

Live music on the one stage all day

Live cooking demonstrations

Custom car, boat, and motorcycle show

Home and garden show

Vendors, exhibitors, displays

Tamale themed project displays

Banda, Corridos, Mariachi, country, and rock n’ roll performers

Kids’ Zone

Music & Entertainment:

Rides :
Bring the kids!!!!
The Tamale Festival will have:
A petting zoo
Pony rides
Train Rides
Spiderman
Captain America
Princess Characters
And Much, Much More
It will be fun for the Kids!!!!

Activities :
Arts & crafts
Food Competition
Tamale Tasting Contest
Tamale Making Demonstrations!!!
And Much More!!!

Family Attractions

For the kids!!!

Meet the farm Petting Zoo.  Piggies, Goats, Rabbits, Clydesdale Horses, Chickens.   Also, Peruvian Lamas, snakes, and more.

Train ride. Pony rides.  Kids can enjoy a nice ride throughout the fairgrounds.

Folklorico Shows.

Kids can visit with Law Enforcement  and Fire Department Officers.

Face Painting

Clowns

Win Trophies For the best Halloween costume contest  And Much, Much More

It will be fun for the Kids!

Come out and enjoy quality live performances by:

See Elvis Presly come to life as Tim McGraw brings the joy of his music and live performance on stage.
Enjoy the Energy of Journey by Tribute Band Faithfully.
If you enjoy some slower jams we have Time X Social Club
The romance and engagement music of Mariah Avila and Mia Mei
Come an get delighted with some traditional Mexican Music by Empresa M
The Latin Sound of Grupo Carrillo
and a full line up of DJ’s will be in the HOUSE!!!!
DJ Omar, DJ Rabbit, Elite Farm Supply
And Much, Much, More….

Admission:
Adults (18-64) – $25
Youth (11-17) – $10
Kids (10 and under) – Free