Get wanting to shuck along with devour at the actual 21st total annual Arcata Main Street's Oyster Festival coming from 10 a.m. for you to 5:30 p.m. on June 18, 2011 at the Arcata Plaza. The Oyster Festival highlights as well as celebrates that plump and sugary Kumamoto oyster out of Humboldt and Arcata bays simply by pairing connected with all-you-can-eat barbecued oysters in addition to award-winning, local microbrews from Lost Coast Brewing Company along with Mad River Brewing Company.
In addition towards the grilled mollusks and also frosty beverages, the function in addition features performances by way of S.F. old-school funk band Vinyl; Humboldt's own Tom Petty tribute band, Full Moon Fever; and also community reggae-roots group Woven Roots. If that is not enough to help sketch you to definitely the hereditary plaza upon June 18, the actual festival will additionally feature a rock-climbing walls and also kinetic bull out of North Coast Adventure Centers but will be centered at your Pacific Outfitters parking lot.
In among your eating, ingesting along with slurping, KWPT 100.3 FM &102.7 FM "The Point" reveals a new Shuck & Swallow competition, exactly where four-time defending winners Aidan Semingson (the shucker) as well as Conor Eckholm (the swallower) endeavor to acquire their fourth-straight yellow metal Shuck & Swallow belt. This desire company might shuck along with take a lot more than thirty five live oysters around five moments and is particularly looking for a few ideal challengers the following year.
The occasion also characteristics the particular Oyster Calling sweepstakes hosted by way of among the most familiar faces within Humboldt County television, Dave Silverbrand. Participants attempt to yell out what an oyster call would sound like if your oyster were to help question many his / her buddies that will sign up for the pup in the Oyster Festival . There's likewise a strong oyster-food judging competition where by the actual winners will get a special award from recycled glass producers Fire & Light. A panel connected with hand-picked judges will have a opportunity to flavor the many diet oyster word options on Friday night, prior to the celebration during Jacoby's Storehouse. This year, the actual diet oyster champions might be declared from 12:30 p.m., so affair goers will have the ability give all these award-winning oysters through festival.
If you're delivering the entire family, a engage in place for the kids will be between Eighth and F & G streets. We'll have waxtivities, balloon producing plus Shantaram the magician.
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