Dia de Los Muertos will be celebrated at Garden Plaza on Main Street in Visalia on Saturday, October 25. This celebration of life, which will begin with a traditional Aztec blessing, is about remembering the lives of loved ones and honoring ancestors. It’s about the cycle of life and learning not to be afraid of […]
Taste the Arts, the area’s biggest annual celebration of the artistic diversity and cultural heritage of Tulare County, returns to Downtown Visalia on Saturday, October 11, beginning at 11am, with a free, all day festival of artists and performers stretching from Garden Street on Main, north to School Street, and into the old Lumber Yard. […]
Legendary Latin band Malo will headline the 2nd Annual Menudo Festival at the Visalia Convention Center on Sunday, October 19. Malo is celebrating over 40 years of performing worldwide and has shared the stage with celebrated groups such as the Rolling Stones and Queen. The band’s 1972 hit single, “Suavecito,” is described as the “ultimate […]
The longest running annual food tasting event in the Central Valley, the 21st Annual Taste of Downtown Visalia, will be held from 5-9pm on Tuesday, October 7. Downtown Visalia’s eclectic family of restaurants will open their doors and offer a taste of their new menu items or fan favorites. A ticket allows guests to sample […]
One of the busiest months of racing in recent memory at the Merle Stone Chevrolet Thunderbowl Raceway kicks off with the second annual Harry Talbot Memorial, featuring Winged 360 Sprint Cars, on Saturday, October 4. The night of competition pays tribute to Harry Talbot, who was very instrumental at the Thunderbowl Raceway and who passed […]
Author Karl Marlantes will be at the Visalia Veterans Memorial Building at 10:30am on Thursday, October 9, to discuss his book What it is Like to Go to War and to answer questions. Marlantes is a Vietnam veteran, a Rhodes Scholar and the author of the New York Times best-selling novel Matterhorn. What it is […]
The Cowboy Cultural Committee will present its Annual Fall Roundup, featuring cowboy poetry and music by Riders in the Sky, Chris Isaacs and Kristyn Harris, at Clarence Ritchie’s Barn, 16338 Ave, 308, Visalia, October 10-12. The Cowboy Cultural Committee was the brainchild of Lani Hernandez of Visalia, and each year the event seems to grow […]
Culture 5, a collective of artists, musicians and business owners, announced that Nick Waterhouse will headline the inaugural Tastemaker Music & Art Festival on October 18 at Rawhide Stadium in Visalia. Also performing will be Valley artists Strange Vine, Mezcal, Taco Wagon and Califas. Event organizers say the Tastemakers Festival is a celebration of the […]
Exciting music by two of America’s most beloved composers will be performed by the Tulare County Symphony for their first classics concert of the season, Saturday, Oct. 18 at 7:30pm at the Visalia Fox Theatre. The program will feature Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story.” George Gershwin had […]
Labor Day has come and gone and with it the summer season is almost over. It is time to start thinking about the fall – perhaps by celebrating at Oktoberfest Live, hosted by the Visalia Chamber of Commerce, from 5:30 to 9:30pm on Thursday, October 2, at its new location, Vossler Farms Pumpkin Patch & […]