Free Admission & Parking | Free Vacation Drawing | Delicious Food & Wine | Over 40 acts on 3 stages

2011 FRENCH FESTIVAL IS CANCELLED

Fun and Food at the French Festival

 

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France comes to Santa Barbara! Outdoor vendors and sidewalk cafes. Tables with umbrellas and checkered tablecloths. Fresh baked french breads and pastries. Classic and nouvelle cuisine and regional specialties. Crepes, onion soup, quiche, pates, sausage, escargots, Cajun and French Moroccan food, salads and cheeses. Beer, wine, sparking Champagne. Orangina, Perrier, and frothy cafe au lait. Chef Michel Richard says it's like going to France without paying for it.

 

Unique in Western U.S.A.

Over 20,000 happy people are French for the weekend. Outdoors under the sun in Santa Barbara's beautiful Oak Park.

 

 

Free Drawing! Win a Trip For 2 to Paris or Tahiti!

Free Drawing! Enter at the Festival. Win a trip for 2 to Paris or Tahiti on Air Tahiti Nui Also: Subscriptions to France Today, subscriptions to France Magazine, and more!

 

 

 

Travel and Language

Displays and free literature from tourist boards, travel agents, tour companies and airlines. Books, maps, language, student exchange programs.

 

Activities

Continuous Free Entertainment: Over 40 Acts on Three Stages!

Raucous cancan. Folk music and dancing. Classical recitals. Accordion players. Tributes to Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. Moroccan belly dancing. Grand opera. Cajun bands. Jazz. Tango. Classical recitals. Roving jugglers, mimes and troubadours. A complete schedule with performance times will be distributed at the Festival.

Arts and Crafts; Books and CDs

Impressionist painters at their easels, reminiscent of Montmartre or Provence. Handcrafted jewelry. Berets. French books, tapes and videos.

Eiffel Tower!
A huge, specially commissioned Eiffel Tower is the focal-point of the Fete.
Statue of Liberty
A giant replica of Bertholdi's famous sculpture (a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States). Sponsored by Spirit of '76 Santa Barbara.
French Art Show
Watercolor paintings of Provence and Paris by Steve Hoegerman, Director of the French Festival and leader of Journeys to Hidden Provence, will be on display the month of July.
For the Kids
Bouncers, wading pool, playground. Meet Madeleine and Asterix. Facepainters. Little Girls' Cancan.

Santa Barbara's First Non-Smoking Festival
Stash those Gitanes and Gauloises or get scolded by the Gendarmes.

 

 

 

 

Over 40 Acts on 3 Stages!

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schedule with times.

 

 

 

• Young Girls' Cancan: Childrens Traveling Dance Theater
• Les Petits Chanteurs d'Aix-en-Provence: Boys Choir from Provence, France
• CanCan (6x each day)
• Steve Hoegerman: French Festival Director and MC Moulin Rouge Stage
• CanCan: Fusion Dance Co. (2x each day)
• Edith Piaf: A Tribute by Delilah Shank
• West African Drum and Dance: From the Congo and Ivory Coast
• Mayor Helen Schneider: Santa Barbara's Madame Mayor Leads Off the Poodle Parade
• Moroccan Belly Dancing: Alexandra King and Seher
• Accordion International Music Society: July Meeting at Festival
• Femmes Fatales Drag Review (6pm Sat & Sun)
• Jessica Fichot: Songs of France, Sounds of the World
• Silver Winds: Flute Duo
• Kendra: Chansons Francais
• Rebekah Scogin: Accordeoniste Supreme
• Ketchup Soup: Madame Hobbs et Monsieur Lovemando: Accordian-infused Jazz et Blues
• Haberdashery:Parisian Cafe/Gypsy/Jazz/Folk
• Bara: Drumming from Senegal
• Laura Weinbach: Experimental/World/Folk Music
• Carol Ann Manzi: Internationally Acclaimed Operatic Soprano; Carmen, Edith Piaf and more
• French Polynesian Dance: Tina's Ports of Paradise
• Medieval and Renaissance Music
• Guilde de Sainte Marie: The French King Francois and Queen Eleanore de Hapsburg, circa 1530
• Jean-Pierre Tibi: Traditional French Songs
• Poodle Parade (Sunday 5:30)
• Cancan: Ellen Schipper Classical Ballet (2x each day)
• Classical Recitals
• Tango: Brian and Fay
• Mimes
• Jugglers
• Zoaves: Colorful French Soldiers
• Hurdy Gurdy
• Madeleine
• Storytellers
• The Society for Creative Anachronism (Sunday all day)
• Bret Larson: Accordion
• Napoleon: Meet the Emperor in Person
• Marie Antoinette
• Asterix
• Assorted Wandering Minstrels and Troubadours
• Historical Ballroom Dance at UCLA: James and Cynthia. Join in!
• Madame Marceline: Songs of the City of Light
• A complete schedule with performance times will be distributed at the Festival.

 

French Festival 2010 Entertainment Schedule

Non-Stop on 3 Stages!

All Times approximate. Schedule subject to change. Tips appreciated.

Sat July 17 2010 - Eiffel Tower Stage

11:00 Silver Winds Flute Duo
11:45 Jessica Fichot Songs of France, Sounds of the World
12:35 Edith Piaf A Tribute by Delilah Shank
1:10 Haberdashery Gypsy/Jazz/Folk/Parisian Cafe
2:00 Laura Weinbach Experimental/World/Folk/French
2:45 Jean-Pierre Tibi Classic French Songs
3:35 French Popular Songs Carol Ann Manzi, International Soprano
4:00 Jessica Fichot Songs of France, Sounds of the World
4:50 Edith Piaf A Tribute by Delilah Shank
5:25 Haberdashery Gypsy/Jazz/Folk/Parisian Cafe
6:15 Laura Weinbach Experimental/World/Folk/French

 

Sat July 17 2010 - Moulin Rouge Stage

11:00 Historical Ballroom Dance Club of UCLA Cynthia and James
11:50 Cancan Children's Traveling Dance Theater
12:05 Balaton French Country Folkdance
1:05 Cancan Fusion Dance Co.
1:20 Bara: West African Drumming From Congo and Senegal
2:10 Cancan West Coast Ballet
2:30 Balaton French Country Folkdance
3:25 Cancan Children's Traveling Dance Theater
3:40 Django Shmango Le Jazz Hot de Paris
4:35 Cancan Fusion Dance Co.
4:50 Historical Ballroom Dance Club of UCLA Cynthia and James
5:40 Cancan West Coast Ballet
6:00 Femmes Fatatle Drag Revue a la Cage aux Folles

 

Sun July 18 2010 - Eiffel Tower Stage

11:00 Ketchup Soup Madame Hobbs: Accordion-infused Jazz and Blues
11:45 French Popular Songs Carol Ann Manzi, International Soprano
12:10 Kendra Chansons Francais et Internationals
12:50 Kalinka Gypsy Jazz and French Cafe
1:40 Ketchup Soup Madame Hobbs: Accordion-infused Jazz and Blues
2:20 Jean-Pierre Tibi Classic French Songs
3:05 French Popular Songs Carol Ann Manzi, International Soprano
3:30 Bara: West African Drum From Congo and Senegal
4:10 Les Petits Chanteurs d'Aix-en-Provence Boys Choir from France
4:50 Kendra Chansons Francais et Internationals
5:30 The Poodle Parade (23rd Annual!) Canine Topiary
6:00 Silver Winds Flute Duo

 

Sun July 18 2010 - Moulin Rouge Stage

11:00 Rebekah Scogin Accordeoniste Suprme
11:35 Historical Ballroom Dance Club of UCLA Cynthia and James
12:25 CanCan Fusion Dance Co
12:40 Seher Moroccan Tribal Dance Seher/ Alexandra King
1:05 Cancan Childrens Traveling Dance Theater
1:20 Tahitian Dance Tina's Ports of Paradise from French Polynesia
2:25 Cancan West Coast Ballet
2:45 Tango Santa Barbara Brian and Fay
3:10 Cancan Fusion Dance Co
3:25 Historical Ballroom Dance Club of UCLA Cynthia and James
4:20 Cancan Children's Traveling Dance Theater
4:35 Tahitian Dance Tina's Ports of Paradise from French Polynesia
5:40 Cancan West Coast Ballet
strong>6:00 Femmes Fatales Drags Revue a la Cage aux Folles

 

Accordian Stage

Accordion International Music Society (AIMS)
Non-stop Accordion Music All Days Both Days!
La Grande Assemblee des Accordeons each day at 3:00

 

Various Times and Places

(Both Days)

Zoaves: French African Soldiers
King Francois 1 And Court (Guilde de Sainte Marie)
Pirates
Napoleon
Asterix
Jaques Chirac
President Sarkozy
Madeline
Jugglers
Plus Assorted Wandering Minstrels and Troubadours