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The North Beach Festival never fails to be one of my favorite festivals to attend in the summer in San Francisco. The pleasant aromas of Italian pasta sauces and freshly oven baked pizzas fill the air. This year’s festival received some amazing weather and the attendance was beyond great. People filled Grant Avenue and Washington Square to enjoy the fun and leisure of the festival. Great music, great food, great art, and great vendors filled every nook and cranny.

Throughout the day, both Saturday and Sunday, the streets were jam packed with people observing and buying local art, sampling and buying snacks from food vendors, obtaining information from informative booths, and the randomly placed street performers to entertain.

Two main stages kept the crowds entertained with great artists who played a lot of upbeat Jazz and Contemporary music. The stage at Washington Square has the capacity to hold thousands of people with food & beer vendors and product vendors surrounding the park. The Green Street stage has a smaller area, but that doesn’t mean that the artists performing there are anything but small. With that said there was great music on Green Street as well as local bars and restaurants surrounding the stage along with food and beer vendors along from Columbus to Grant Avenue. There was also a smaller stage out on Filbert Street, but the majority of performances came from the other two main stages, the Filbert stage was more of a beer garden that had ambient music.

On Vallejo Street, chalk artists drew and colored some amazing pieces of art on the concrete. There were spaces for several artists to display their work, but there also were a couple available squares for anyone to make chalk art for a small nominal fee. Also on Vallejo Street, a sponsoring Las Vegas vendor came to build a large sand sculpture of a mini Las Vegas in a large sandbox with the sponsors giving out prizes for spinning a wheel.

Overall, the North Beach Festival was the place to be in San Francisco for the weekend of Father’s Day. It was such a beautiful weekend with amazing food, art, and music. People put on their happy faces and it seemed like the day was just meant to be perfect. Great festival to attend, bring out your family, friends, and neighbors next year because it’s going to be fun. You can count on that.

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