{"id":22574,"date":"2016-05-08T01:23:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T08:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22574"},"modified":"2016-05-08T01:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T08:23:28","slug":"heritage-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/heritage-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"California Heritage Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/swedfes.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/kingsburg-swedish-festival.html\">Kingsburg Swedish Festival<\/a> Parade head down Draper Street in May look for quaint costumes, marching bands, a Maypole Dance &#8211;and, yes, even\u00a0vaqueros\u00a0wearing sombreros. The San Joaquin Valley town halfway between Los Angeles and Sacramento was 94%\u00a0Swedes\u00a0in 1921 &#8212; today 42% of the population is Hispanic according to the latest U.S. Census data. The Kingsburg Chamber of Commerce and City continue to promote &#8216;Little Sweden,&#8217; for its\u00a0business-friendly environment and European roots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heritage festivals in California:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/\/festivals\/simi-cajun-music-festival.html\">Cajun Festival<\/a> in Simi Valley in May<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/anaheim-greek-festival.html\">Orange County Greek<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-cruz-greek.html\">Santa Cruz Greek Festival<\/a> in May<\/li>\n<li>West Hollywood <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/west-hollywood-russian-festival.html\">Russian Festival<\/a> in May<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-juan-capistrano-mariachis.html\">San Juan Capistrano Mariachis<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/calexico-mariachi-festival.html\">Calexico Mariachis Festival<\/a> in May<\/li>\n<li>Vista <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/vista-scottish-festival.html\">Scottish Festival<\/a> in June<\/li>\n<li>Little Italy, San Francisco&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-north-beach-festival.html\">North Beach Festival<\/a> in June<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-barbara-french-festival.html\">French Festival<\/a> in Santa Barbara in July<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/solvang-danish-days.html\">Solvang Danish Days<\/a> in September<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you see the Kingsburg Swedish Festival Parade head down Draper Street in May look for quaint costumes, marching bands, a Maypole Dance &#8211;and, yes, even\u00a0vaqueros\u00a0wearing sombreros. The San Joaquin Valley town halfway between Los Angeles and Sacramento was 94%\u00a0Swedes\u00a0in 1921 &#8212; today 42% of the population is Hispanic according to the latest U.S. Census [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}