{"id":5770,"date":"2012-05-18T11:20:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5770"},"modified":"2012-05-18T11:20:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:20:40","slug":"carmel-art-festival-leads-way-to-exciting-saturday-and-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/carmel-art-festival-leads-way-to-exciting-saturday-and-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmel Art Festival Leads Way to Exciting Saturday and Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/carart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots going on and the weather should be quite nice throughout California this weekend. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/carmel-art-festival.html\">Carmel Art Festiva<\/a>l is a free event worth taking a look. But there are thousands of festivals and fairs going on.\u00a0 Food festivals, rodeos, hometown parades, and nature to explore include Coulterville Coyote Howl Parade &amp; Festival, Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee, and Freeport Walk on the Wild Side Festival. \u00a0 Get up and boogie to shed a few pounds before swimsuit season becomes official on Memorial Weekend.\u00a0 Work it, own it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-events.html\">WEEKEND EVENTS<\/a> ON SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ALAMEDA -Living Ship Day,\u00a0 Flashlight Tour. Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the USS Hornet Reservations required: (510) 521-8448 x224uss-hornet.org<\/li>\n<li>ANAHEIM &#8211; OC Greek Fest May 18 &#8211; 20, 2012 ocgreekfest.com<\/li>\n<li>ANDERSON &#8211; Anderson Century.\u00a0\u00a0 Call: (530) 941-9977<\/li>\n<li>ANDERSON VALLEY &#8211; Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Fest May 18-20, 2012. \u00a0 Call: (707) 895.WINE<\/li>\n<li>ANGELS CAMP &#8211; Jumping Frog Jubilee. Jumping Frog Jubilee &amp; County Fair May 17-20, 2012.\u00a0 frogtown.org<\/li>\n<li>CALEXICO &#8211; Mariachi Festival May 14-19, 2012. (760) 357-1166<\/li>\n<li>CARMEL &#8211; Carmel Art Festival May 17 &#8211; 20, 2012. Admission is FREE. carmelartfestival.org<\/li>\n<li>CASTROVILLE &#8211; Castroville Artichoke Festival May 19-20, 2012. Cost: $10 general; $5 Child 4-12; under 3 free. artichoke-festival.org<\/li>\n<li>CHOWCHILLA &#8211; May 17-20, 2012 Chowchilla-Madera County Fair ci.chowchilla.ca.us<\/li>\n<li>CLAYTON &#8211; Clayton Valley Garden Club Plant Sale, May 19-20, 2012.<\/li>\n<li>COULTERVILLE &#8211; Coyote Howl Parade and Festival. coultervillemuseum.org<\/li>\n<li>DANA POINT &#8211; Doheny Blues Festival, May 19-20, Gregg Allman and Steve Miller are headline acts. Cost: $90 2 day pass. omegaevents.com\/dohenyblues\/<\/li>\n<li>ENCINITAS &#8211; San Diego Century. Three Courses &#8211; Three Distances<\/li>\n<li>FREEPORT &#8211; Walk on the Wildside Outdoor Festival. Cost: Free<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO &#8211; California Classic Weekend Century. californiaclassicweekend.com<\/li>\n<li>HAYWARD &#8211; May 19-20 rowellranchrodeo.com<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH May 18 &#8211; 20, 2012 Duck-a-thon at Huntington Beach Pier duckathon.org<\/li>\n<li>IRWINDALE &#8211; The Original Pleasure Renaissance Faire, April 7 &#8211; May 20. renfair.com<\/li>\n<li>KING CITY &#8211; Salinas Valley Fair May 17-20, 2012. salinasvalleyfair.com<\/li>\n<li>LITTLE RIVER &#8211; A Cappella by the Sea: Concert and Master Class for A Cappella Maniacs. \u00a0 (707) 964-7469 or gloriana.org<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH &#8211; Long Beach Lesbian &amp; Gay Pride Celebration May 19 &amp; 20, longbeachpride.com<\/li>\n<li>MONROVIA &#8211; Monrovia Day. cityofmonrovia.org<\/li>\n<li>OAKDALE &#8211; Chocolate Festival May 19 &#8211; 20, 2012. \u00a0oakdalechamber.com<\/li>\n<li>OAKLAND &#8211; Tradition Innovation &#8211; A Fiber Artisans Conference, May 18 &#8211; May 20. T cnch.org<\/li>\n<li>ORLAND &#8211; Glenn County Fair May 17-20, 2012\u00a0. Celebrating 96 years in 2012. glenncountyfair.org<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD &#8211; California Strawberry Festival, May 19-20, 2012, strawberry-fest.org<\/li>\n<li>PENN VALLEY &#8211; May 18-20, 2012 Penn Valley Rodeo. pvrodeo.com<\/li>\n<li>PORTERVILLE &#8211; Porterville Fair &#8211; May 16-20, 2012 portervillefair.com<\/li>\n<li>REDWOOD CITY &#8211; Redwood City Spring Art Show.\u00a0 Phone: (650) 369-6456.<\/li>\n<li>SAN CARLOS &#8211; San Carlos Hometown Days Festival and Parade, May 18-20 2012 sancarloshometowndays.com<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO OCEAN BEACH &#8211; OB Beach Ball. Microbrew Beer Garden, action sports, music. oceanbeachsandiego.com<\/li>\n<li>SAN PEDRO &#8211; L.A. Wood (Woodies on the Waterfront. Time: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Ports of Call Village<\/li>\n<li>TOMALES &#8211; Tea and Fashion Show. Call (707) 878-9443.<\/li>\n<li>VENTURA &#8211; Rediscovery of Horace Bristol&#8217;s Lost Photographs, venturamuseum.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s lots going on and the weather should be quite nice throughout California this weekend. Carmel Art Festival is a free event worth taking a look. But there are thousands of festivals and fairs going on.\u00a0 Food festivals, rodeos, hometown parades, and nature to explore include Coulterville Coyote Howl Parade &amp; Festival, Calaveras County Jumping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770"}],"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=5770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}